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Shading normal and geometric normal for refractive surface rendering
I got confused when implementing my own renderer. I read this from the PBR-book:
Fortunately, there is an elegant solution to these problems. When evaluating the BSDF, we can use the geometric normal ...
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PBR missing rim darkening on non metallic rough surfaces
If you have a dielectric (non metallic) sphere with a large roughness value (say, 0.95), and put it in a lighting environment that has a constant onmidirectional lighting value (such as 0.5) Cook-...
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Microfacet shading for diffuse materials
I recently replaced the Lambertian BRDF in my path-tracer with Oren-Nayar, under the assumption that I could adjust it to use the GGX distribution model with appropriate masking/shadowing.
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