An Evaluation of Deferred Shading Under Changing Conditions

Description:

Deferred shading has gained popularity in recent years, but some aspects about its performance are still unclear. In this work we make an initial evaluation of deferred shading's performance and evaluate it with respect to the number of light sources, the type of light sources, the illumination model, the complexity of the scene, and the influence range of the light sources. We compare measured performance values with each other and also compare them with the performance of traditional shading. The results show that in particular the number of light sources, the type of light sources, and the scene complexity are important factors that influence the performance of deferred shading.

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Poster presented at ASCI 2010:

References:

Bart Postma and Tobias Isenberg (2010) An Evaluation of Deferred Shading Under Changing Conditions. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging (ASCI CONFERENCE, November 1–3, Veldhoven, The Netherlands)., article no. 30, 8 pages, 2010.

BibTeX entry:



@INPROCEEDINGS{Postma:2010:EDS,
  author      = {Bart Postma and Tobias Isenberg},
  title       = {An Evaluation of Deferred Shading Under Changing Conditions},
  booktitle   = {Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging (ASCI CONFERENCE, November 1--3, Veldhoven, The Netherlands)},
  year        = {2010},
  articleno   = {30},
  numpages    = {8},
  url         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/p/Postma2010EDS},
  pdf         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/personal/papers/Postma_2010_EDS.pdf},
}

Bart Postma (2009) An Evaluation of Deferred Shading Under Changing Conditions. Bachelor thesis, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 2009.

BibTeX entry:



@MASTERSTHESIS{Postma:2009:EDS,
  author      = {Bart Postma},
  title       = {An Evaluation of Deferred Shading Under Changing Conditions},
  type        = {Bachelor thesis},
  year        = {2009},
  school      = {University of Groningen},
  address     = {The Netherlands},
  url         = {https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/8593/},
  url2        = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/VideosAndDemos/Postma2010EDS},
  pdf         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/personal/papers_students/Postma_2009_EDS.pdf},
}

This work was done at the Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics Lab of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.