Adding shadows of objects | Computer Graphics
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This document discusses two methods for adding shadows to objects in 3D scenes - shadows as textures and creating shadows with a shadow buffer. The shadows as textures method works for point light sources casting shadows on flat surfaces by "painting" the shadows as textures, but requires computing the shape of each shadow. The shadow buffer method performs hidden surface removal by marking in a buffer any points hidden from the light source, then rendering the scene in two passes - first loading the shadow buffer and then rendering using the buffer values to determine shading.
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- 1. Adding shadows ofAdding shadows of objectsobjects Aravindhan A Final year CSE | SMIT About.me/aravindhan
- 2. Why shadows? Make image more realistic Visual clues as how objects are positioned with respect to each other
- 4. Two methods Shadows as Texture Creating shadows with the use of a shadow buffer
- 5. Shadows as Texture The technique of “painting” shadows as a texture works for shadows that are cast On a flat surface by a point light source Problem is to compute the shape of shadow that is cast
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- 10. Rendering the scene Each face of the screen is rendered using eye camera 1) Pseudo depth from the source to point P 2) Index location in shadow buffer 3) Value stored at index location in shadow buffer
- 12. Thank you!