bagginsbill opened this issue on Sep 29, 2010 · 74 posts
bagginsbill posted Thu, 30 September 2010 at 7:36 AM
Quote - Dumb question, bill, you said this:
Quote - The Fresnel effect is that reflections are brighter when they strike a surface at a shallow angle.
Is the opposite of this ever true in real life? That refections get dimmer at higher angles?
Nice tutorial BTW. Reminds me I should try out matmatic.
That's not a dumb question at all. You'd think that it could be possible, perhaps if the IOR is less than 1. But that's not the case at all. Reflections are always strongest when they are the most shallow angle.
However, there is more to the Fresnel curve than that. Want to see graphs?
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