IEICE Trans - An Efficient Soft Shadow Mapping for Area Lights in Various Shapes and Colors

An Efficient Soft Shadow Mapping for Area Lights in Various Shapes and Colors

Youngjae CHUN  Kyoungsu OH

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems   Vol.E100-D   No.2   pp.396-400
Publication Date: 2017/02/01
Publicized: 2016/11/11
Online ISSN: 1745-1361
DOI: 10.1587/transinf.2016EDL8102
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Computer Graphics
Keyword:
soft shadow,  area light,  global illumination,  real-time rendering,  GPU acceleration,

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Summary:
Shadow is an important effect that makes virtual 3D scenes more realistic. In this paper, we propose a fast and correct soft shadow generation method for area lights of various shapes and colors. To conduct efficient as well as accurate visibility tests, we exploit the complexity of shadow and area light color.