Section 13.5. Further Information

The SIGGRAPH 2002 course notes contained the article Production-Ready Global Illumination, by Hayden Landis. This document describes ambient environments, reflection occlusion, and ambient occlusion and explains how they are used in the ILM computer graphics production environment. The article Ambient Occlusion, by Matt Pharr and Simon Green, provides further details about the preprocessing step and gives example shaders written in Cg. The GPU Gems 2 book contains an article by Michael Bunnell that describes efforts to compute occlusion factors in real time.

Frank Crow pioneered the development of shadow algorithms for computer graphics. Mark Segal and others described the basics of using texture mapping hardware to generate shadows in a 1992 SIGGRAPH paper. Randima Fernando and Mark Kilgard discuss a Cg implementation of these techniques in the book The Cg Tutorial. Eric Haines wrote a survey of real-time shadow algorithms and presented this information at GDC in 2001. Some of this material is also in the book Real-Time Rendering by Akenine-Möller and Haines.

Deferred shading has recently been a hot topic in computer games development. In the book GPU Gems 2, Oles Shishkovtsov discusses how this approach was used for the computer game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. His article also mentions presentations from the 2004 Game Developer's Conference.

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