Resolution Estimation for Shadow Mapping

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2013
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The Eurographics Association
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We present an approach to efficiently reduce shadow map resolution while retaining high quality hard shadows. In the first step, we generate a list of sample points that are seen from the camera and then project these into light space, much like Alias-free Shadow Maps. In the next step, we analyze the list of sample points on the GPU to construct a tight light frustum for shadow rendering. After the light frustum is computed, we calculate for each sample the actual coverage in the final shadow map to estimate how large a shadow map pixel should be. From this number, we derive the lowest possible resolution to use in the shadow map while retaining nearly alias-free shadows. Our algorithm is built for a deferred renderer.
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@inproceedings{
:10.2312/LocalChapterEvents.TPCG.TPCG13.109-114
, booktitle = {
Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics
}, editor = {
Silvester Czanner and Wen Tang
}, title = {{
Resolution Estimation for Shadow Mapping
}}, author = {
Ferko, Michal
}, year = {
2013
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
}, ISBN = {
978-3-905673-98-2
}, DOI = {
/10.2312/LocalChapterEvents.TPCG.TPCG13.109-114
} }
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