Software Shadows For Ray Tracing Using Hardware Cameras
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The goal of ray tracing is to create images that are as accurate to real life as possible. Unfortunately, attaining this goal typically requires an extremely large amount of processing time. In this paper I propose a method for creating accurate soft shadows using graphics hardware to accelerate the process.
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