Shadow Puppet Real-time

Using OpenGL and summed area tables to produce virtual shadow puppets in real-time as part of my EngD dissertation.

Input:

• quad for puppet position
• bitmap for puppet texture
• bitmap for screen texture

Method:

This software uses:

• rectangular light source
• diffuse lighting
• soft shadows
• integral images

Output:

This software can produce:

• still images (HD frame rate ~ 260fps)
• animations (HD frame rate ~ 52fps)

Dependencies:

To run successfully, this code must be linked to the following 4 libraries.

• OpenGl
• GLEW
• GLFW3
• GLM

How to compile:

CL:

 cl /O2 /EHsc  main.cpp shader.cpp BITMAP.cpp ReadObj.cpp openGLCalculations.cpp /link /NODEFAULTLIB:"LIBCMT"  "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\lib\glfw3.lib" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\lib\glew32.lib" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Lib\winv6.3\um\x86\OpenGL32.Lib"  "user32.lib" "gdi32.lib"  "shell32.lib" "msvcrt.lib" 

To run in terminal:

main xres yres