GPU2
Thursday, 12 August
3:45 - 5:30 pm
Petree Hall C
Session Chair: Eric Haines, Autodesk, Inc.

CC Shadow Volumes A method to accelerate shadow volumes by culling shadow casters that lie completely in shadow and clamping the volumes to just the regions occupied by shadow receivers. Brandon Lloyd University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill blloyd (at) cs.unc.edu Jeremy Wendt Naga Govindaraju Dinesh Manocha University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Practical Real-Time Hair Rendering and Shading A real-time algorithm for hair rendering using a polygon model, which was used in the real-time animation "Ruby: The Double Cross," appearing in the SIGGRAPH 2004 Computer Animation Festival. Thorsten Scheuermann ATI Research thorsten (at) ati.com
Real-Time Skin Rendering on Graphics Hardware An algorithm that approximates the appearance of subsurface scattering by blurring the diffuse illumination in texture space using graphics hardware. Pedro V. Sander ATI Research psander (at) ati.com David Gosselin Jason L. Mitchell ATI Research
Displacement Mapping With Ray-Casting in Hardware A new method for rendering displacement-mapped planes using per-pixel ray-casting in programmable graphics hardware. Keith Yerex University of Alberta keith (at) yerex.ca Martin Jagersand University of Alberta