High-Quality Shadows for Streaming Terrain Rendering

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2015
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The Eurographics Association
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Rendering of large, detailed 3D terrains on commodity hardware has become possible through the use of raycasting, data caching and prefetching. Adding dynamic shadows as they appear during a day-night cycle remais a challenge however, because shadow rendering requires access to the entire terrain, invalidating data streaming strategies. In this work we present a novel, practicable shadow rendering approach which distinguishes between near- and precomputed far-shadows to significantly reduce data access and runtime costs. While near-shadows are raytraced using the current cache content, far-shadows are precomputed and stored in a very compact format requiring approximately 3 bit per height-map sample for an entire day-night cycle.
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@inproceedings{
10.2312:egsh.20151014
, booktitle = {
EG 2015 - Short Papers
}, editor = {
B. Bickel and T. Ritschel
}, title = {{
High-Quality Shadows for Streaming Terrain Rendering
}}, author = {
Chajdas, Matthäus G.
and
Reichl, Florian
and
Dick, Christian
and
Westermann, Rüdiger
}, year = {
2015
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
}, ISBN = {}, DOI = {
10.2312/egsh.20151014
} }
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