shadows

references

• • required

    • William T. Reeves, David H. Salesin, and Robert L. Cook. 1987. Rendering antialiased shadows with depth maps. In Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (SIGGRAPH '87), Maureen C. Stone (Ed.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 283-291. (ncsu)

    • Fernando, R. (2005, July). Percentage-closer soft shadows. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Sketches (p. 35). ACM. A related presentation is here. A related white paper is here, and a related demo, movie and model from Nvidia can be found here (search for percentage). (ncsu)

    • Akenine-Moller, T., Haines, E., & Hoffman, N. (2018). Shadows. Chapter 7 in Real-Time Rendering. AK Peters/CRC Press. (ncsu)

  • optional

    • William Donnelly and Andrew Lauritzen. 2006. Variance shadow maps. In Proceedings of the 2006 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics and games (I3D '06). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 161-165. A related white paper is here, and related demos are here (search for variance). (ncsu)

demos

• • webgl/js

    • hard shadows

      • planar

        • WebGL fundamentals

      • volumes

        • Andrew hills shadow volumes

      • maps

        • WebGL fundamentals shadow maps

        • Threejs shadow maps

        • Nutty shadow maps

        • shader toy mapping

      • defunct

        • Le Roux's cascaded shadow maps

        • archer shadow volumes

        • Codeflow shadow maps

    • soft shadows

      • shader toy mapping

      • Boesch's variance shadow maps

  • opengl/c++

    • This demo from GameDev.net compares PCF shadows, variance shadow maps, and an improved version of variance shadow maps. It includes software and video.

    • This demo from GameDev.net shows shadow volumes.

    • This Nehe demo also shows shadow volumes.

    • Mark Kilgard's shadow volume demo includes code, but is not executable.

    • Here is a simple shadow mapping demo.

    • Nvidia's shadow volume demo from 04.

    • This page contains several Nvidia shadow demos, including PCF and shadow volumes.

engine refs

• • manual

    • unreal: shadows, raytraced, cascaded, ue3

    • unity: shadows