Light Scattering from Human Hair Fibers

July 2003 in “ ACM Transactions on Graphics ”

Steve Marschner, Henrik Wann Jensen, Mike Cammarano … Pat Hanrahan

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Studysummary In this study, a new shading model for hair was developed that better matches real-life light scattering, thanks to detailed new measurements of hair fiber scattering not predicted by existing models.

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