Concentric Spherical Representation for Omnidirectional Soft Shadow
| dc.contributor.author | Xiao, Yi | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Leung, Chi Sing | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Ho, Tze Yui | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Wan, Liang | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Wong, Tien Tsing | en_US |
| dc.contributor.editor | Holly Rushmeier and Oliver Deussen | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-02-28T16:07:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-02-28T16:07:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Soft shadows play an important role in photo‐realistic rendering. Although there are many efficient soft shadow algorithms, most of them focus on the one‐side light source situation, where a planar light source is on the outside of the scene. In fact, in many situations, such as games, light sources are omnidirectional. They may be surrounded by a number of 3D objects. This paper proposes a soft shadow algorithm for the omnidirectional situation. We develop a concentric spherical representation to model the behaviour of omnidirectional light sources. To provide better rendering results, a novel summed area table based filtering scheme for spherical functions is proposed. In addition, we utilize unicube mapping, which samples the spherical space more uniformly, to further improve the filtering quality.Soft shadows play an important role in photo‐realistic rendering. Although there are many efficient soft shadow algorithms, most of them focus on the one‐side light source situation, where a planar light source is on the outside of the scene. In fact, in many situations, such as games, light sources are omnidirectional. They may be surrounded by a number of 3D objects. This paper proposes a soft shadow algorithm for the omnidirectional situation. | en_US |
| dc.description.number | 6 | |
| dc.description.seriesinformation | Computer Graphics Forum | en_US |
| dc.description.volume | 32 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1467-8659 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12085 | en_US |
| dc.publisher | The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | en_US |
| dc.subject | cube map | en_US |
| dc.subject | convolution shadow map | en_US |
| dc.subject | omnidirectional soft shadow | en_US |
| dc.subject | summed area table | en_US |
| dc.subject | I.3.3 [Computer Graphics] | en_US |
| dc.subject | Three‐Dimensional Graphics and RealismColor | en_US |
| dc.subject | shading | en_US |
| dc.subject | shadowing and texture | en_US |
| dc.title | Concentric Spherical Representation for Omnidirectional Soft Shadow | en_US |