Very quick tutorial. using Subsurface Scattering to simulate translucent materials that scatter light as it passes through.

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Using a diamond crystal measuring just a few millimeters across in a carefully designed cavity, they tested a deliberately "noisy" input beam with linewidth exceeding 10 MHz. Their Raman scattering ...

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Abstract Subsurface scattering is an important visual cue and in real-time rendering it is often approximated using screen-space algorithms. Path tracing with the diffusion approximation can easily ...

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