We report on the possibility of detecting a submillimetre-sized extra dimension by observing gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by pointlike objects orbiting a braneworld black hole. Matter in the ‘visible’ universe can generate a discrete spectrum of high frequency GWs with amplitudes moderately weaker than the predictions of general relativity (GR), while GW signals generated by matter on a ‘s...

We present a review on rendering rigid shadows precisely and proficiently. Our review provides the details of all the existing methods for rendering shadows and the hybrid approaches. Hybrid approaches merge the two or more existing algorithms. The algorithm merges shadow map and shadow volume computation. Analysis of shadow volume, shadow map and projection algorithm is performed and is mentio...

We conduct experiments on two-dimensional packings of colloidal thermosensitive hydrogel particles whose packing fraction can be tuned above the jamming transition by varying the temperature. By measuring displacement correlations between particles, we extract the vibrational properties of a corresponding "shadow" system with the same configuration and interactions, but for which the dynamics o...

We investigate correlations between low-frequency vibrational modes and rearrangements in two-dimensional colloidal glasses composed of thermosensitive microgel particles, which readily permit variation of the sample packing fraction. At each packing fraction, the particle displacement covariance matrix is measured and used to extract the vibrational spectrum of the "shadow" colloidal glass (i....

We present a method for high quality soft shadows for area lights in cinematic lighting. The method is an extension of traditional shadow maps, so it has the advantage of image based shadow methods; the algorithm’s complexity is independent of geometric complexity. We introduce multilayer transparent shadow maps, which can be used to produce high quality soft shadows for scenes with extremely c...

We present Convolution Shadow Maps, a novel shadow representation that affords efficient arbitrary linear filtering of shadows. Traditional shadow mapping is inherently non-linear w.r.t. the stored depth values, due to the binary shadow test. We linearize the problem by approximating shadow test as a weighted summation of basis terms. We demonstrate the usefulness of this representation, and sh...

In the large-scale terrain scene rendering, because of the complexity of the shadow algorithm, the algorithm of the real-time shadow have not been able to achieve satisfactory rate. In this situation, this paper proposed a GPU-based real-time shadow algorithm. It can be used for generating real-time shadow effect in morphing terrain rendering. First of all, this method pre-processes terrain dat...

Given a set of n non-overlapping unit disks in the plane, a line ` is called blocked if it intersects at least one of the disks and a point p is called a shadow point if all lines containing p are blocked. In addition, a maximal closed set of shadow points is called a shadow region. We derive properties of shadow regions, and present an O(n) algorithm that outputs all shadow regions. We prove t...

Shadows cause problems in image processing. In this paper, a new methodology for shadow removal based on Strong Edge Detection (SED) method is proposed. The strong shadow edges are recognized by learning the patch based characteristics of shadow edges and then image features are analyzed to guide a Shadow Edge Classifier. Also, spatial patch smoothing is used to enforce uniformity between adjac...

Rendering high-quality shadows in real-time is a challenging problem. Shadow mapping has proved to be an efficient solution, as it scales well for complex scenes. However, it suffers from aliasing problems. Filtering the shadow map alleviates aliasing, but unfortunately, native hardware-accelerated filtering cannot be applied, as the shadow test has to take place beforehand. We introduce a simp...