DuskZone - by Dario Scarpa - master thesis - Solid Angle Based Ambient Obscurance in Image-Space

My master thesis

Solid Angle based Ambient Obscurance in Image-Space

For my master thesis, I've been back at ISISLab (where I already worked on my bachelor thesis), this time working under the supervision of both prof. Vittorio Scarano and prof. Ugo Erra.
There, I spent a significant amount of time

studying computer graphics
coding from scratch a C++11/OpenGL 4 rendering sandbox
- Y.A.R.S - Yet Another Rendering Sandbox
designing and deveoping a new screen space ambient occlusion technique
- saSSAO - Solid Angle SSAO

A demo of what I accomplished:

A scientific paper related to my work was later published:

Scarpa D., Erra U. (2017) Solid Angle Based Ambient Obscurance in Image Space. In: De Paolis L., Bourdot P., Mongelli A. (eds) Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics. AVR 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10325. Springer, Cham

Thesis and slides

thesis: Solid Angle based Ambient Obscurance in Image Space
final presentation (slides)
OpenGL fun in the Sponza atrium (slides for mid-thesis seminar held at ISISlab)
thesis abstract (in Italian)

Implementation

Y.A.R.S. full source code, including the implementation of saSSAO, is available on GitHub

You can also check my ISISlab page.