An Improved Physically-Based Soft Shadow Volume Algorithm

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dc.contributor.authorLehtinen, Jaakkoen_US
dc.contributor.authorLaine, Samulien_US
dc.contributor.authorAila, Timoen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-21T14:30:26Z
dc.date.available2015-02-21T14:30:26Z
dc.date.issued2006en_US
dc.description.abstractWe identify and analyze several performance problems in a state-of-the-art physically-based soft shadow volume algorithm, and present an improved method that alleviates these problems by replacing an overly conservative spatial acceleration structure by a more efficient one. The new technique consistently outperforms both the previous method and a ray tracing-based reference solution in several realistic situations while retaining the correctness of the solution and other desirable characteristics of the previous method. These include the unintrusiveness of the original algorithm, meaning that our method can be used as a black-box shadow solver in any offline renderer without requiring multiple passes over the image or other special accommodation. We achieve speedup factors from 1.6 to 12.3 when compared to the previous method.Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): I.3.7 [Three-Dimensional Graphics and Realism]: Shadowingen_US
dc.description.number3en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.description.volume25en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1467-8659.2006.00949.xen_US
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659en_US
dc.identifier.pages303-312en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2006.00949.xen_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing, Incen_US
dc.titleAn Improved Physically-Based Soft Shadow Volume Algorithmen_US
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