Angelouscuitry opened this issue on Dec 08, 2006 · 41 posts
pjz99 posted Sun, 10 December 2006 at 12:46 AM
FYI, it's not just for human skin, it has applications for a lot of materials and is basically just a cool effect to get some light thrown back by things that ought to do that. Seems like everyone only looks at it for skin, I don't know why.
http://graphics.ucsd.edu/~henrik/images/subsurf.html
^^ by one of the guys that basically invented the technique in CG, has many interesting examples of how it can be applied.