Shadow Volumes

Computer Graphics · Shadows · 1977 · shadow-volumes.yaml

Extrudes silhouette edges away from the light and uses the stencil buffer to count entries and exits. Geometrically exact, with no resolution artifacts, but fill-rate cost scales badly.

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

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G shadow-mapping Shadow Mapping shadow-volumes Shadow Volumes shadow-volumes->shadow-mapping exact silhouettes, but fill-rate bound

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