Shadows for Incomplete Point-based Isosurfaces
Yarden Livnat, Xavier Tricoche · 2005
This paper presents a method for computing shadows on incomplete point-based isosurfaces. Such surfaces are obtained in our setting by a view-dependent isosurface extraction method that allows interactive exploration of large scale datasets on commodity hardware. This approach raises the need for a novel and efficient technique to generate high-quality shadows. The latter dramatically enhances the realism of the visualized isosurface and provides essential cues to perceive depth and small features of the geometry.