Many researchers have been arguing that geometry, bump maps, and BRDFs present a hierarchy of detail that should be exploited for efficient rendering purposes. In practice howeve...
Wolfgang Heidrich, Katja Daubert, Jan Kautz, Hans-...
We present a new, real-time method for rendering soft shadows from large light sources or lighting environments on dynamic height fields. The method first computes a horizon map f...
Shadowing effects dramatically enhance the realism of virtual environments by providing useful visual cues. Shadow mapping is an efficient algorithm for real-time shadow renderin...
We present a new, general, and real-time technique for soft global illumination in low-frequency environmental lighting. It accumulates over relatively few spherical proxies which...
Peter-Pike J. Sloan, Naga K. Govindaraju, Derek No...
Volumetric effects such as beams of light through participating media are an important component in the appearance of the natural world. Many such effects can be faithfully modele...
Ilya Baran, Jiawen Chen, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Fr...