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Rendering of Wet Materials

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Rendering Techniques’ 99 (EGSR 1999)

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The appearance of many natural materials is largely influenced by the environment in which they are situated. Capturing the effects of such environmental factors is essential for producing realistic synthetic images. In this work, we model the changes of appearance due to one such environmental factor, the presence of water or other liquids. Wet materials can look darker, brighter, or more specular depending on the type of material and the viewing conditions. These differences in appearance are caused by a combination of the presence of liquid on the surface and inside the material. To simulate both of these conditions we have developed an approach that combines a reflection model for surface water with subsurface scattering. We demonstrate our approach with a variety of example scenes, showcasing many characteristic appearances of wet materials.

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  1. Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

    Henrik Wann Jensen, Justin Legakis & Julie Dorsey

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

    Dani Lischinski

  2. Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA

    Greg Ward Larson

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Jensen, H.W., Legakis, J., Dorsey, J. (1999). Rendering of Wet Materials. In: Lischinski, D., Larson, G.W. (eds) Rendering Techniques’ 99. EGSR 1999. Eurographics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6809-7_24

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