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Re:Raytracing in One Weekend (2016) by mattkrause on Monday November 30, 2020 @07:54PM (#25260998)
There is even some crazy work using micro-CT scans to develop highly realistic scattering models of materials. https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~kb/publications/SIG11CT.pdf

A friend worked on a similar project to predict bird (and dinosaur) coloration from the structure of their feathers, which is just wild!

Re:Raytracing in One Weekend (2016) by Arelius on Monday November 30, 2020 @07:57PM (#25261015)
That's really cool. I hadn't seen it, but I'm not surprised to see Wenzel Jakob's name on the paper.