Screen-space ambient occlusion using a-buffer techniques

Proceedings - 13th International Conference on Computer-Aided Design and Computer Graphics, CAD/Graphics 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 140-147

  Bauer, Fabian ^a   Knuth, Martin ^b   Bender, Jan ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER IGD   (Germany)

Author keywords

order independent transparency; rasterization; real time rendering; screen space ambient occlusion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; OPACITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TRANSPARENCY;

AMBIENT OCCLUSION; CRITICAL PROBLEMS; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; MULTIPLE LAYERS; OPTIMIZATION STRATEGY; ORDER-INDEPENDENT TRANSPARENCIES; REAL-TIME RENDERING; TRANSPARENT SURFACES;

RASTERIZATION;

EID: 84901472024     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CADGraphics.2013.26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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