Re: ClearCoat

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Brian Cabral (cabral++at++sgi.com)
Fri, 20 Nov 1998 07:48:05 -0800


>
> I could not find any technical information about ClearCoat at this address. Is
> ClearCoat something better than a very simple two-pass rendering ?
>
> And RealityMapping ? is it something more than some demos already seen, using
> multi-pass algorithms with OpenGL or Performer for reflecting properly the
> environment.
>

Clear is a single pass environment mapping technique that encodes the
approximate BRDF and BDTF behaivor into a sphere map - by taking a
sphere map and rencoding said physical behavior into a new sphere map.

                                B.c.


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