Name
Abstract | ||
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Shadows, particularly soft shadows, play an important role in the visual perception of a scene by providing visual cues about the shape and position of objects. Several recent algorithms produce sqf shadows at interactive rates, but they do not scale well with the number of polygons in the scene or only compute the outer penumbra. In this paper, we present a new algorithm for computing interactive soft shadows on the GPU. Our new approach provides both inner- and outer-penumbra for a modest computational cost, providing interactive frame-rates for models with hundreds of thousands of polygons.Our technique is based on a sampled image of the occluders, as in shadow map techniques. These shadow samples are used in a novel manner, computing their effect on a second projective shadow texture using fragment programs. In essence, the fraction of the light source area hidden by each sample is accumulated at each texel position of this Soft Shadow Map. We include an extensive study of the approximations caused by our algorithm, as well as its computational costs. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2006 | 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2006.00995.x | COMPUTER GRAPHICS FORUM |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
interactive shadows, soft shadows, shadow map, GPU, real-time rendering | Sensory cue,Computer vision,Shadow,Visibility,Polygon,Computer graphics (images),Computer science,Real-time rendering,Shadow mapping,Artificial intelligence,Shadow volume,Visual perception | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
25 | 4 | 0167-7055 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
27 | 1.47 | 18 |
Authors | ||
6 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lionel Atty | 1 | 27 | 1.47 |
| Nicolas Holzschuch | 2 | 607 | 40.15 |
| marc lapierre | 3 | 125 | 6.41 |
| Jean-Marc Hasenfratz | 4 | 151 | 7.78 |
| Charles Hansen | 5 | 157 | 10.59 |
| François Sillion | 6 | 2128 | 188.75 |