Shadows are of great importance to computer graphics, especially for interactive animation due to the visual cues which they provide. Most research in the field of dynamic shadowi...
Soft shadows and penumbra regions generated by extended light sources such as linear and area lights are visual effects that significantly contribute to the realism of a scene. In ...
Wolfgang Heidrich, Stefan Brabec, Hans-Peter Seide...
The computation of soft shadows created by area light sources is a well-known problem in computer graphics. Due to the complexity of the problem, soft shadows commonly are generat...
Abstract. Soft shadow mapping is an attractive solution to the problem of realtime soft shadows because it works with any kind of rasterizable geometry (in particular alpha-transpa...
A fundamental challenge for existing shadow map based algorithms is dealing with partially illuminated surfaces. A conventional shadow map built with a pinhole camera only determi...