keywords: Graphics, Ambient Occlusion, Rendering

Documents

SSAO vs. HBAO vs. HDAO - What’s the real difference?
https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/95161/ssao-vs-hbao-vs-hdao-whats-the-real-difference

Horizon-Based Ambient Occlusion Plus (HBAO+)
https://developer.nvidia.com/rendering-technologies/horizon-based-ambient-occlusion-plus

Presentations

Dynamic Occlusion with Signed Distance Fields
https://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2015/DynamicOcclusionWithSignedDistanceFields.pdf

Ambient Occlusion
https://creativecoding.soe.ucsc.edu/courses/cmpm164/_schedule/AmbientOcclusion.pdf

Deinterleaved Texturing for Cache-Efficient Interleaved Sampling
https://developer.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/akamai/gameworks/samples/DeinterleavedTexturing.pdf

Papers

Fast Image-Based Ambient Occlusion (IBAO)
https://www.bib.irb.hr/567876/download/567876.Publicirano_IJVR_2011_104_paper7.pdf

A Fast Ambient Occlusion Method for Real-Time Plant Rendering

Two Methods for Fast Ray-Cast Ambient Occlusion
https://users.aalto.fi/~laines9/publications/laine2010egsr_paper.pdf

Realistic Ambient Occlusion In Real-Time

Ambient Occlusion and Edge Cueing to Enhance Real Time Molecular Visualization
https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/4879509/tarini_finalversionelec-with-cover-page-v2.pdf

Local Ambient Occlusion in Direct Volume Rendering
https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:321233/FULLTEXT01.pdf

Efficient Screen-Space Approach to High-Quality Multi-Scale Ambient Occlusion
https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~lowkl/publications/mssao_visual_computer_2012.pdf

A Corner-Highlighting Method for Ambient Occlusion (Recommended)
https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/applsci/applsci-11-03276/article_deploy/applsci-11-03276.pdf

Practical Realtime Strategies for Accurate Indirect Occlusion
https://iryoku.com/downloads/Practical-Realtime-Strategies-for-Accurate-Indirect-Occlusion.pdf

Examples

optimized screen-space ambient occlusion, cache-aware hbao.
https://github.com/nvpro-samples/gl_ssao

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