The Alchemy screen-space ambient obscurance algorithm

Proceedings - HPG 2011: ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on High Performance Graphics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 25-32

  McGuire, Morgan ^a   Osman, Brian ^b   Bukowski, Michael ^b   Hennessy, Padraic ^b  

^a NVIDIA   (United States)

^b Vicarious Visions ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient obscurance; Ambient occlusion; Screen space

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT OBSCURANCE; AMBIENT OCCLUSION; DYNAMIC SCENES; ILLUMINATION EFFECT; SAMPLE POINT; SCREEN SPACE; XBOX 360;

ALGORITHMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

CHEMISTRY;

EID: 80052500428     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2018323.2018327     Document Type: Conference Paper

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