Microfacets

Microfacets

Formalized in models of light reflection for computer synthesized pictures

Simulate having many super small facetts with individual normals. Use a distribution function for the effective surface normal microfacets_5df9548c84cdfee8b064111f28e72866eb974404.svg at a position

Secondary effects #

  1. Shadowing

  2. Masking

  3. Light bounces

Light bounces are typcally ignored, the others are being handled by the Geometry Factor

Calendar January 2, 2023 (Updated October 22, 2023)