Thoroughly revised, this third edition focuses on modern techniques used to generate
synthetic three-dimensional images in a fraction of a second. With the advent of …

Important elements of games, movies, and other computer-generated content, shadows are
crucial for enhancing realism and providing important visual cues. In recent years, there …

(57) ABSTRACT A method for implementing a graphics pipeline. The method includes
building a first shadow map of high resolution, and building a second shadow map based on …

Because of its versatility, speed and robustness, shadow map** has always been a
popular algorithm for fast hard shadow generation since its introduction in 1978, first for …

Rendering a complex surface accurately and without aliasing requires the evaluation of an
integral for each pixel, namely, a weighted average of the outgoing radiance over the pixel …

This paper provides an overview of the issues and techniques involved in shadow
generation in mixed reality environments. Shadow generation techniques in virtual …

We present moment shadow map**, a novel technique for fast, filtered hard shadows. Like
variance shadow map** it allows for the application of all kinds of efficient texture filtering …

Obscurance and Ambient Occlusion (AO) are popular techniques in both film and games
that model how ambient light is shadowed. While it is largely a solved problem for static …

This paper introduces Sample Distribution Shadow Maps (SDSMs), a new algorithm for hard
and soft-edged shadows that greatly reduces undersampling, oversampling, and geometric …

Realistic rendering techniques of outdoor Augmented Reality (AR) has been an attractive
topic since the last two decades considering the sizeable amount of publications in …