Ambient Occlusion
Ambient Occlusion is a global illumination rendering technique that approximates the attenuation of ambient light at surface points due to surrounding geometry, enhancing visual realism by darkening creases, corners, and contact areas where ambient light is less likely to reach.
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Production-Ready Global Illumination
Hayden Landis · 2004 · 187 citations
Image-space horizon-based ambient occlusion
Louis Bavoil, Miguel Saínz, Rouslan Dimitrov · 2008 · 134 citations
Dynamic Ambient Occlusion and Indirect Lighting
Michael Bunnell · 2005 · 123 citations
Architecture, High-performance Computing, Computer Graphics +16
Miranda Elaine Glynis Armstrong · Asian Conference on Computer Vision · 1995 · 114 citations
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Nvidia (United Kingdom)
Reading, United Kingdom
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18 publications
831 citations
Nvidia (United States)
Santa Clara, United States
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9 publications
566 citations
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, United States
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3 publications
69 citations

Athens University of Economics and Business
Athens, Greece
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6 publications
110 citations
Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique
Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, France
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4 publications
106 citations

Universitat de Girona
Girona, Spain
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5 publications
131 citations

Lund University
Lund, Sweden
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200 citations
Walt Disney (United States)
Burbank, United States
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