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The irregular z-buffer and its application to shadow mapping

Johnson et al., 2004

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12619590554654181392
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Johnson G
Mark W
Burns C
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The classical Z-buffer algorithm samples a scene at regularly spaced points on an image plane. We present an extension of this algorithm called the irregular Z-buffer that permits sampling of the scene at arbitrary points on the image plane. The sample points are stored …
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