Real Time Volumetric Shadows using Polygonal Light Volumes
Paper i proceeding, 2010

This paper presents a more efficient way of computing single scattering effects in homogeneous participating media for real-time purposes than the currently popular ray-marching based algorithms. These effects include halos around light sources, volumetric shadows and crepuscular rays. By displacing the vertices of a base mesh with the depths from a standard shadow map, we construct a polygonal mesh that encloses the volume of space that is directly illuminated by a light source. Using this volume we can calculate the airlight contribution for each pixel by considering only points along the eye-ray where shadow-transitions occur. Unlike previous ray-marching methods, our method calculates the exact airlight contribution, with respect to the shadow map resolution, at real time frame rates.

Författare

Markus Billeter

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Datorteknik

Erik Sintorn

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Datorteknik

Ulf Assarsson

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Datorteknik

Proceedings of the Conference on High Performance Graphics, 2010

2079-8679 (ISSN)

39-45
978-3-905674-26-2 (ISBN)

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978-3-905674-26-2

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2017-10-07