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Realistic rendering of layered translucent materials, such as human skin, combines knowledge from mathematics, physics, and biology. Several years ago the best-known examples of human skin had used several minutes for each image rendering. In last years GPU development accompanied with programming tools and methods evolution allows obtaining realistic skin look with real-time application performance. The presented paper describes the most important steps in translucent materials modeling and rendering, surveys the technique components and considers new tendencies in GPU-based skin modeling implementation, analyses advantages and drawbacks of the most popular approaches. The paper describes in details the new method that combines translucent shadow map for the irradiance calculation and the dipole model for diffuse component computation. The method improves modeling accuracy and can be used for parameterized meshes. The algorithm combines power of contemporary GPU and mathematically accurate modeling of light transport in human skin.
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Martinova, E. (2009). Realistic Skin Rendering on GPU. In: Plemenos, D., Miaoulis, G. (eds) Intelligent Computer Graphics 2009. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 240. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03452-7_1
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