cast_shadow — 3D `render` op

• Data kinds: mesh × vector → image2d

• Call: import render_shadow; render_shadow.cast_shadow(V, F, light, *, pose=None, intrinsics=None, width: 'int' = 256, height: 'int' = 256, directional: 'bool' = True, penumbra: 'float' = 0.0, samples: 'int' = 16, shadow_res: 'int' = 512, bias=None, pcf: 'int' = 0) -> 'np.ndarray' (or ops3d.get("cast_shadow"))

Usage

Compute a mesh's cast / soft shadows and return a visibility map (H,W) ∈ [0,1].

References (sample data, literature)

• Sample-data catalog (download URLs / licences) — 2-D uses skimage.data (BSD/public domain) plus synthetic images; 3-D lists download URLs for real data sources (Stanford, PDS, …).

• Operator provenance and references — the sources of the research/methods this op family came from.

Runnable examples (verified samples that actually call this op)

• render_beauty — py -3.11 examples_3d/render_beauty.py

• render_shadow — py -3.11 examples_3d/render_shadow.py

Ops the type connects to (they accept `image2d` as input)

fuse_to_voxel · fit_poly_surface · eval_poly_surface · surface_form_error · background_flatten · polar_unwrap · fit_zernike · matcap_shade

Same category (`render`)

project_points · render_point_depth · render_volume_projection · render_shaded · ambient_occlusion · phong_shade · matcap_shade · supersample_mesh

*Provenance: render_shadow.py — 3D operator registry. This per-op note is generated by tools/opdocs.py md (do not hand-edit).*

cast_shadow — 3D render op