{"id":1087,"date":"2010-02-21T16:51:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T22:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2010-02-21T16:51:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T22:51:45","slug":"shadow-survey-from-siggraph-asia-2009-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/shadow-survey-from-siggraph-asia-2009-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadow Survey from SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I asked Daniel Scherzer about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/another-new-book-with-an-incredibly-long-title-that-attempts-to-explain-what-its-about-but-is-still-mysterious\/\">my post about his book<\/a>. He said it&#8217;s about right (and the long subtitle is indeed a Verlag decision).<\/p>\n<p>The cool thing that turned up: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cg.tuwien.ac.at\/research\/publications\/2010\/scherzer_2010a\/\">their upcoming STAR survey<\/a> on hard shadows will be more theoretical and detailed than his thesis&#8217; survey. It will be similar to the hard shadow section in the SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 course\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpi-inf.mpg.de\/resources\/ShadowCourse\/\">Casting Shadows in Real Time<\/a> (which has a solid 90 pages on direct illumination shadow algorithms, plus more on related methods).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve updated the original post with this information, but wanted to make a separate post so that people wouldn&#8217;t miss this valuable overview on shadows and ambient occlusion (just a tiny bit on the latter).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I asked Daniel Scherzer about my post about his book. He said it&#8217;s about right (and the long subtitle is indeed a Verlag decision). The cool thing that turned up: their upcoming STAR survey on hard shadows will be more theoretical and detailed than his thesis&#8217; survey. It will be similar to the hard shadow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[113,102,365],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","tag-shadows","tag-ssao","tag-survey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1088,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}