August 2007
Intermediate to advanced
1008 pages
21h 13m
English
Martin Stich mental images
Carsten Wächter Ulm University
Alexander Keller Ulm University
RealityServer is a mental images platform for creating and deploying 3D Web services and other applications (mental images 2007). The hardware renderer in RealityServer needs to be able to display a large variety of scenes with high performance and quality. An important aspect of achieving these kinds of convincing images is realistic shadow rendering.
RealityServer supports the two most common shadow-rendering techniques: shadow mapping and shadow volumes. Each method has its own advantages and drawbacks. It’s relatively easy to create soft shadows ...