Questions tagged [ambient-occlusion]

I'm working on an SSAO implementation. I've had an idea to speed it up by having AO fragment shader finish faster for fragments that are not occluded (depending on the scene, this can be a significant portion of the screen in my case). I tried a…

So, the german wikipedia states about ambient occlusion:The ambient occlusion method is based on the assumption that an object, a set of objects or an entire scene is surrounded by a unit sphere of light. Now, let's suppose we've got a scene in…