Link collection of particle and volumetric shadows

In games

• Volumetric Shadows in "Killzone: Shadow Fall Demo Postmortem" 2013
  • http://www.slideshare.net/guerrillagames/killzone-shadow-fall-demo-postmortem

• "Playing with Real-Time Shadows" Nikolas Kasyan. Crytek. SIGGRAPH 2013
  • http://www.crytek.com/download/Playing%20with%20Real-Time%20Shadows.pdf

• "Volumetric Fog Shadows in Crysis3" GDC 2013
  • http://www.slideshare.net/TiagoAlexSousa/rendering-technologies-from-crysis-3-gdc-2013

• "The Technology Behind the “Unreal Engine 4 Elemental Demo" SIGGRAPH 2012 | Martin Mittring
  • http://www.unrealengine.com/files/misc/The_Technology_Behind_the_Elemental_Demo_16x9_(2).pdf

• Shadow & Transparency in "Secrets of CryENGINE 3 Graphics Technology" SIGGRAPH 2011
  • http://www.slideshare.net/TiagoAlexSousa/secrets-of-cryengine-3-graphics-technology

Papers

• "Particle Shadows & Cache-Efficient Post-Processing" Louis Bavoil & Jon Jansen. GDC 2013
  • https://developer.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/akamai/BAVOIL_ParticleShadowsAndCacheEfficientPost.pdf

• "Fast rendering of opacity-mapped particles using DirectX 11 tessellation and mixed resolutions" Jon Jasen. GDC 2011
  • http://www.nvidia.com/content/PDF/GDC2011/Jon_Jansen.pdf
  • https://developer.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/akamai/gamedev/files/sdk/11/OpacityMappingSDKWhitePaper.pdf

• "Adaptive Volumetric Shadow Maps" Intel. 2013
  • http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2013/03/27/adaptive-volumetric-shadow-maps

• "Hair Self Shadowing and Transparency Depth Ordering Using Occupancy maps" 2009
  • http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~uffe/hair2009.pdf

• "Deep Shadow Maps" Tom Lokovic, Eric Veach. Pixar
  • http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ravir/6160-fall04/papers/p385-lokovic.pdf
  • http://renderman.pixar.com/view/deep-shadows

Others

• "Approximate Bias Compensation for Rendering Scenes with Heterogeneous Participating Media"
  • slides: http://cg.ibds.kit.edu/publications/p2012/ABC/ABC_slides.pptx
  • paper : http://cg.ibds.kit.edu/publications/p2012/ABC/ABC.pdf