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CS 455 Ambient Occlusion

April 23, 2013 by Marc Allen. Filed under cs455, spring 2013.

Watch the following videos:

• Ambient Occlusion – Theory
• Ambient Occlusion – Blender
• Ambient Occlusion – Renderer

Additional Reading:

If you want to look into ambient occlusion a bit more, here are some interesting sources that we stumbled across.

• For more on SSAO for quick dynamic ambient occlusion, this is a helpful article.  Simple and Practical Approach to SSAO.
• For more information on other techniques, check out these articles. Ambient Occlusion and Dynamic Ambient Occlusion and Indirect Lighting.