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I wish you would stop. Since you said "I have no idea what the Hell Poser does inside", and since I'm trying to help people understand what the Hell Poser does inside, and since I know exactly what the Hell Poser does inside

No, you don't know. If so, tell me why what you see in preview mode is not the same of what you see in the rendering. It's obvious that the preview and render illumination models are different, why???, it's anoying!!

Quote - It might have been interesting if you'd discussed the Torrance-Sparrow model, because it does attempt to do the silhouette effect, also known as rim lighting, and the Poser Blinn NODE implements the the Torrance-Sparrow model, not the Blinn model.

For what, the Torrance model is too complicated and is only valid for metallic surfaces.
Maybe the Poser's Torrance node or Blinn as you call it has nothing to with the real Torrance BRDF model.
One more confussion and missuse of names???

Quote - And next time you want to give a lecture that only 1/100th of the people

Wel, for 1/100th of the people is useful, I never pretended to be populist, I let this task to the

I have an useful link too:

http://www.realtimerendering.com/

Stupidity also evolves!