Percentage-Closer Soft Shadows

Computer Graphics · Shadows · 2005 · also: PCSS · percentage-closer-soft-shadows.yaml

Searches for blockers first and sizes the PCF kernel by how far away they are, so shadows sharpen near contact and soften with distance.

• supersedescorrects · extends
• classifiesspecializes · part-of
• substitutes forapproximates · alternative-to
• depends onrequires · validates

Colour is the family; a dashed line is the second member of it.

This node

• extendsadds capability to Percentage-Closer Filteringkernel width from blocker distance gives contact hardening

References

• Percentage-Closer Soft Shadows — Fernando — 2005 · link