Soft shadows for cinematic lighting for computer graphics

Details Soft shadows for cinematic lighting for computer graphics Soft shadows for cinematic lighting for computer graphics

2011-06-28

2011-06-28

Repko, Jason M (Department: 2628)

Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system

Computer graphics processing

Three-dimension

Reexamination Certificate

active

07969438

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for high quality soft shadows for area lights in cinematic lighting for use in computer graphics, such as computer enabled animation. The method is an extension of traditional shadow maps, so the complexity of the present method is independent of geometric complexity. It uses multilayer translucent shadow maps, which can be used to produce high quality soft shadows for scenes with extremely complex geometry, fur, and volume objects. The present method computes the shadow factor by ray tracing the multilayer translucent shadow map.

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