3D Printing Materials With Subsurface Scattering | Two Minute Papers #98
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Today, our main question is whether we can reproduce the effect of subsurface scattering with 3D printed materials. The input would be a real material, and the output would be an arbitrary shaped 3d printed material with similar scattering properties. Something that looks similar.
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The paper "Physical Reproduction of Materials with Specified Subsurface Scattering" is available here:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/wojciech/PRO/index.html
Recommended for you:
Separable Subsurface Scattering (more on diffusion profiles therein) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72_iAlYwl0c
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