Home 3D CG Glossary Sub-Surface Scattering Contact Services   Random Image click for full size Main Menu Home Services Gallery Demo Video 3D CG Glossary The Laboratory Downloads Copyright Contact Glossary Terms 3D Modeling 3D Rendering Anti-Aliasing Bit Depth Blurry Reflections / Refractions Bump Mapping Caustics CG / CGI Color Bleeding Compositing Depth of Fields Direct Light Displacement Mapping Flythrough Frame Fresnel Effect Global Illumination High Dynamic Range Images Indirect Light Keyframe Light Emitters Low-Poly Modelling Motion Blur Motion Capture NURBS Particle Systems Polygon Procedural Texture Raytracing Realtime 3D Rigging Shading Sub-Surface Scattering Texture Mapping Toon Shading Volumetric effects Wireframe select a term from the list on the left to see the description.   feel free to contact MadTom Productions about: the suggestion of another term the correction of a wrong or missleading statement (i hope there are none) any 3D CG related topic Sub-Surface Scattering Sub-Surface Scattering (or "SSS" for short) describes the natural effect appearing within semi-transparent materials. There are many materials beyond glass and other clear liquids that are able to transport light through their volumes.   One great use of Sub-Surface light scattering is the simulation of human skin. If you think your skin is not transparent, you'd be wrong. Put a bright flashlight behind your finger and you would see red color tones along with darker, more opaque areas (your bones). The light is penetrating the surface of your skin and travels through your body to reveal the interior structures. Advanced Renderers (such as the one used by MadTom Productions) can simulate this light distribution through semi-transparent objects.   < Prev   Next >

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