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Deferred Shading in Luma
Nicholas Brancaccio
15.1 Introduction
Luma is Floored’s in-house, browser-based solution for rendering interior architectural
spaces. Interior architectural visualization brings with it the challenge of illuminating
a variety of clean, real-world materials with many distinct, localized light sources. Like
a number of its contemporaries, Luma tackles these challenges with deferred shading
[Geldreich 04] complemented by physically based shading [Hill 13]. Luma’s implementa-
tion is exible enough to be used for both traditional photorealistic rendering, as well as
stylized rendering [Wei 14].
Deferred shading decouples ...