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JGTOOLS
2006
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Efficient Shadows for Sampled Environment Maps
This paper addresses the problem of efficiently calculating shadows from environment maps in the context of ray-tracing. Since accurate rendering of shadows from environment maps ...
Aner Ben-Artzi, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Maneesh Agrawala
AFRIGRAPH
2001
ACM
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Exploiting coherence of shadow rays
We present independent method to reduce the number of shadow ray tests. It can be used with standard acceleration ray tracing algorithms. Our method is conservative and produces t...
Andrzej Lukaszewski