bagginsbill opened this issue on Apr 23, 2008 · 2832 posts
bagginsbill posted Sun, 27 April 2008 at 3:24 PM
Here's another hint. In many renders we insist that there should be some subsurface scattering, to redden the areas in shadow.
This is, well, inaccurate. We need some more red, but not for the reasons most people have been saying. It has almost NOTHING to do with subsurface scattering, as an underlying physical phenomenon. It has to do with a flaw in our, um, "display" devices. This flaw must be anticipated, and the images we deal with, both incoming and outgoing, must be "compensated". Otherwise, we're doing incorrect math.
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