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Visual appearance

The visual appearance of objects is given by the way in which they reflect and transmit light. The color of objects is determined by the parts of the spectrum of (incident white) light that are reflected or transmitted without being absorbed. Additional appearance attributes are based on the directional distribution of reflected (BRDF) or transmitted…

Art, Appearance of reflective objects & Terminology

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Appearance of reflective objects

TopographyDistinctness of imageHazeScattering
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FluxSpecularTransmittance
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ReflectLightColorSpectrumBRDF
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Appearance of reflective objects

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Visual appearance

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Avg. degree1.89
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light objects appearance reflected color surface transmitted also determined visual given absorbed etc different distributions haze reflective reflection see brdf

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