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CGF
2011
14 years 9 months ago
A Survey of Real-Time Hard Shadow Mapping Methods
Due to its versatility, speed and robustness, shadow mapping has always been a popular algorithm for fast hard
Daniel Scherzer, Michael Wimmer, Werner Purgathofe...
RT
2005
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Metropolis Photon Sampling with Optional User Guidance
We present Metropolis Photon Sampling (MPS), a visual importance-driven algorithm for populating photon maps. Photon Mapping and other particle tracing algorithms fail if the phot...
Shaohua Fan, Stephen Chenney, Yu-chi Lai
VRCAI
2006
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Parallel-split shadow maps for large-scale virtual environments
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...
Fan Zhang, Hanqiu Sun, Leilei Xu, Lee Kit Lun
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
2008
15 years 3 months ago
Quality scalability of soft shadow mapping
Recently, several soft shadow mapping algorithms have been introduced which extract micro-occluders from a shadow map and backproject them on the light source to approximately det...
Michael Schwarz, Marc Stamminger
CGF
2006
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15 years 2 months ago
Soft Shadow Maps: Efficient Sampling of Light Source Visibility
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 alg...
Lionel Atty, Nicolas Holzschuch, Marc Lapierre, Je...