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Surface Curvature Effects on Reflectance from Translucent Materials (1010.2623v2)
Published 13 Oct 2010 in cs.GR and physics.optics
Abstract: Most of the physically based techniques for rendering translucent objects use the diffusion theory of light scattering in turbid media. The widely used dipole diffusion model (Jensen et al. 2001) applies the diffusion-theory formula derived for a planar interface to objects of arbitrary shapes. This paper presents first results of our investigation of how surface curvature affects the diffuse reflectance from translucent materials.