Stochastic transparency

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1036-1047

  Enderton, Eric ^a   Sintorn, Erik ^b   Shirley, Peter ^a   Luebke, David ^a  

^a NVIDIA   (United States)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

deep shadow maps; Rendering; shadow maps; stochastic sampling; transparency

Indexed keywords

MEMORY SIZE; PIXEL LEVEL; RANDOM SUBSETS; RENDERING; SHADOW MAPS; STOCHASTIC SAMPLING; SUB PIXELS; UNIFIED APPROACH; Z-BUFFER;

IMAGE MATCHING; MAPS; PIXELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

TRANSPARENCY;

EID: 79958815959     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.123     Document Type: Article

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