Real-time ambient occlusion and halos with Summed Area Tables

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 337-350

  Díaz, José ^a   Vázquez, Pere Pau ^a   Navazo, Isabel ^a   Duguet, Florent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b ALTIMESH   (France)

Author keywords

Ambient occlusion; Depth perception enhancement; GPU based volume ray casting; Halo rendering

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIGITAL STORAGE; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS); TEXTURES;

AMBIENT OCCLUSION; DEPTH COMPLEXITY; HALO RENDERING; PRE-COMPUTATION; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; VIEW-DEPENDENT; VOLUME RAY CASTING; VOLUMETRIC MODELS;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

EID: 77955467413     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2010.03.005     Document Type: Article

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