Directed Acyclic Graph Encoding for Compressed Shadow Maps
L. Scandolo (TU Delft - Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)
E. Eisemann (TU Delft - Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)
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Abstract
Detailed shadows in large-scale environments are challenging. Our approach enables efficient detailed shadow computations for static environments at a low memory cost. It builds upon compressed precomputed multiresolution hierarchies but uses a directed acyclic graph to encode its tree structure. Further, depth values are compressed and stored separately and we use a bit-plane encoding for the lower tree levels entries in order to further reduce memory requirements and increase locality. We achieve between 20% to 50% improved compression rates, while retaining high performance.
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