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Diffuse Lighting Examples

We need only consider angles from 0 to 90 degrees.

Greater angles (where the dot product is negative) are blocked by the surface, and the reflected energy is 0.

Below are several examples of a spherical diffuse reflector with a varying lighting angles.

Why do you think spheres are used as examples when shading?

What is missing ??? a little shiny spot ?


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Pascal Vuylsteker / eScience / Computer Science / ANU
Last modified: 20/4/2004
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