Advanced topics
Ongoing research in BRDFs seeks to:
Recover BRDFs from just a few images, model global light transport
Yu
, Debevec, Malik and Hawkins,
Inverse Global Illumination
,
SIGGRAPH
1999.
Model semi-transparent, refractive surfaces
Zongker, Werner, Curless, and Salesin,
Environment Matting and
Compositing
, SIGGRAPH 99, pp. 205-214.
Model sub-surface scattering
Jensen, Marschner, Levoy and Hanrahan:
A Practical Model for Subsurface
Light Transport
, SIGGRAPH'2001.
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