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Specular highlight

A specular highlight is the bright spot of light that appears on shiny objects when illuminated (for example, see image on right). Specular highlights are important in 3D computer graphics, as they provide a strong visual cue for the shape of an object and its location with respect to light sources in the scene.

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Specular highlight

Nodes23
Edges22
Triples16
Avg. degree1.91
Density0.086957
Components1

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Specular highlight

Top relations

related to Microfacets · 9
Specular highlight → As, At, However, Specular, The, These, This, Thus, We
related to Phong distribution · 3
Specular highlight → In, Phong, Where
related to Gaussian distribution · 2
Specular highlight → Gaussian, The
is a · 1
Specular highlight → bright spot of light that appears on shiny objects when illuminated

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Important terminology

specular light normal surface distribution highlight model direction microfacets phong smooth displaystyle anisotropic half-angle vector term reflected microfacet color function

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Specular highlightis abright spot of light that appears on shiny objects when illuminated0.90text
gold the color of the specular highlight will reflect the color of the materialinstance ofOn metallic materials0.80text
Specular highlightrelated to Gaussian distributionGaussian0.60section
Specular highlightrelated to Gaussian distributionThe0.60section
Specular highlightrelated to MicrofacetsThe0.60section
Specular highlightrelated to MicrofacetsSpecular0.60section
Specular highlightrelated to MicrofacetsThus0.60section
Specular highlightrelated to MicrofacetsHowever0.60section
Specular highlightrelated to MicrofacetsThis0.60section
Specular highlightrelated to MicrofacetsWe0.60section
Specular highlightrelated to MicrofacetsThese0.60section
Specular highlightrelated to MicrofacetsAt0.60section

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