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shadow techniques in opengl

This is comprehensive

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/doc_shadows.html

however, it's a bit overwhelming

can anyone familiar with shadow techniquyes in opengl provide a short summary of the pros/cons and implementation difficulty of the various algorithms?

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