“An Approximate Reflectance Profile for Efficient Subsurface Scattering”
Conference:
Type(s):
Entry Number: 25
Title:
- An Approximate Reflectance Profile for Efficient Subsurface Scattering
Presenter(s)/Author(s):
Abstract:
Computer graphics researchers have developed increasingly sophisticated and accurate physically-based subsurface scattering BSSRDF models: from the simple dipole diffusion model [Jensen et al. 2001] to the quantized diffusion [d’Eon and Irving 2011] and beam diffusion [Habel et al. 2013] models. We present a BSSRDF model based on an empirical reflectance profile that is as simple as the dipole but matches brute-force Monte Carlo references better than even beam diffusion.
References:
Burley, B. 2013. Subsurface scattering investigation. Unpublished slides. (To appear at Physically Based Shading course, SIGGRAPH 2015).
d’Eon, E., and Irving, G. 2011. A quantized-diffusion model for rendering translucent materials. SIGGRAPH, 56:1–56:14.
Habel, R., Christensen, P. H., and Jarosz, W. 2013. Photon beam diffusion: a hybrid Monte Carlo method for subsurface scattering. EGSR, 27–37.
Jensen, H. W., Marschner, S. R., Levoy, M., and Hanrahan, P. 2001. A practical model for subsurface light transport. SIGGRAPH, 511–518.
