Generating Dynamic Shadows for Virtual Reality Applications

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  • IV '01 Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information Visualisation
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  • 2001

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Abstract

Abstract: In this paper we discuss the benefits of including shadows into virtual reality applications and propose a solution to the problem of generating shadows for dynamic scenes. In order to achieve interactivity, we restrict the problem to the case of polyhedral objects and planar surfaces. We propose a new node as an extension to VRML that automatically generates the shadow of the underlying polygonal model into user defined surfaces.