Shadows and Shadow Mapping
Shadows has remained as a big challenge for years in computer graphics. There are many ways to achieve “shadows”, some methods require special data structures and coding, and some has quality and speed falloffs.

SIGGRAPH, international conference on computer graphics and interactive technologies was held on 31 July-4August in Los Angeles Convention Center. That was really a great experience for me to face cutting-edge technologies and latest improvements all in one place. The conference was too dense and it was impossible to miss some precious seminers, that were simultaneously [...]

I had the opportunity to present the components we have developed for IntelliCAD, a general purpose 3D drawing application, in IntelliCAD WorldMeeting 2005 – the Netherlands to professional CAD developers from all around the world. The components were picking entities by ray tracing, the raster module, the photo-realistic rendering module, CNC and some other components. [...]