Soft Textured Shadow Volume

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2009
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The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Abstract
Efficiently computing robust soft shadows is a challenging and time consuming task. On the one hand, the quality of image-based shadows is inherently limited by the discrete property of their framework. On the other hand, object-based algorithms do not exhibit such discretization issues but they can only efficiently deal with triangles having a constant transmittance factor. This paper addresses this limitation. We propose a general algorithm for the computation of robust and accurate soft shadows for triangles with a spatially varying transmittance. We then show how this technique can be efficiently included into object-based soft shadow algorithms. This results in unified object-based frameworks for computing robust direct shadows for both standard and perforated triangles in fully animated scenes.
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@article{
10.1111:j.1467-8659.2009.01488.x
, journal = {Computer Graphics Forum}, title = {{
Soft Textured Shadow Volume
}}, author = {
Forest, Vincent
and
Barthe, Loic
and
Guennebaud, Gael
and
Paulin, Mathias
}, year = {
2009
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd
}, ISSN = {
1467-8659
}, DOI = {
10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01488.x
} }
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