Thoroughly revised, this third edition focuses on modern techniques used to generate
synthetic three-dimensional images in a fraction of a second. With the advent of …

Existing offline techniques for modeling subsurface scattering effects in multi-layered
translucent materials such as human skin achieve remarkable realism, but require seconds …

We propose a novel skin shader which translates the simulation of subsurface scattering
from texture space to a screen-space diffusion approximation. It naturally scales well while …

Sub‐surface scattering is always an important feature in translucent material rendering.
When light travels through optically thick media, its transport within the medium can be …

Diffusion theory allows the production of realistic skin renderings. The dipole and multipole
models allow for solving challenging diffusion-theory equations efficiently. By using texture …

In this chapter, the authors discuss a different approach to skin shading: rather than
gathering neighboring light, they preintegrate the effects of scattered light. Pre-integrating …

For many application areas, where a task is most naturally represented by talking or where
standard input devices are difficult to use or not available at all, virtual characters can be …

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 …

The appearance of woven fabrics is intrinsically determined by the geometric details of their
meso/micro scale structure. In this paper, we propose a multiscale representation and …

Static and dynamic realism are both important in computer facial animation. However, for
embodied conversational agents in interfaces, and for agents or avatars in virtual …