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small_potato__

What happens when you layer different types of materials together? Like something translucent in front of something reflective?

marshmallow

^^ I'm also curious about that as well

emmaloool

Wouldn't you follow the same concept as subsurface scattering (mentioned in the later slides)? The leaves that are "stacked" in front of each other remind me of this example.

rlpo

It seems like the rendering of different types of materials is a really active area of research nowadays. I found an interesting paper by Professor Gkioulekas (professor here at CMU) on the behaviour of translucent edges: http://vision.seas.harvard.edu/translucentedges/