Realistic Real-time Underwater Caustics and Godrays
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Realistic rendering of underwater scenes has been a subject of increasing importance in modern real-time 3D applications, such as open-world 3D games, which constantly present the user with opportunities to submerge oneself in an underwater environment. Crucial to the accurate recreation of these environments are the effects of caustics and godrays. In this paper, we shall present a novel algorithm, for physically inspired real-time simulation of these phenomena, on commodity 3D graphics hardware, which can easily be integrated in a modern 3D engine.
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