Title
Fast soft shadow by depth peeling
Abstract
Soft shadow generation is a challenging problem in realistic rendering. Previous methods using shadow map or shadow volume work well for point light sources but are difficult to be extended to area lights. This paper presents a new method for fast soft shadow generation under dynamic area light sources. Our algorithm encodes the depth distribution of the scene into a coarse depth grid in a preliminary pass from the light point of view. In the second pass, the scene is rendered from the camera viewpoint to capture the frontmost layer. During deferred shading, the area light is sampled and the irradiance of each shaded pixel is accumulated along the ray. Experimental results demonstrate high quality soft shadows with interactive performance for dynamic scenes and lighting.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1836845.1836980
SIGGRAPH Posters
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
fast soft shadow generation,shadow volume work,shadow map,dynamic area light source,soft shadow,depth peeling,coarse depth grid,area light,soft shadow generation,point light source,light point,ambient occlusion,global illumination,shadow mapping
Conference
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
1
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xue-Hui Liu125626.39
Xiaoguang Hao210.36
Meng-Cheng Huang3897.45
Fang Liu4847.37
Mingquan Zhou526665.04
Hanqiu Sun669685.72
Enhua Wu7916115.33