This paper addresses the problem of efficiently calculating shadows from environment maps in the context of ray-tracing. Since accurate rendering of shadows from environment maps ...
Aner Ben-Artzi, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Maneesh Agrawala
Generating soft shadows in real time is difficult. Exact methods (such as ray tracing, and multiple light source simulation) are too slow, while approximate methods often overesti...
Xiao-Hua Cai, Yun-Tao Jia, Xi Wang, Shi-Min Hu, Ra...
Photometric stereo is a method of recovering surface normals (needle map) from images. The surface integral of surface normals is used to reconstruct a depth map; however, the dep...
Koh Kakusho, Koki Hamada, Masaaki Iiyama, Michihik...
This paper presents a purely hardware-accelerated shadow volume algorithm for subdivision surface based models. By introducing SP (subdivision patterns), all procedures, including ...
Abstract. We explore the implications of reversing the process of shadow computation for real-time applications that model complex reflectance and lighting (such as that specified ...