Jennifer Liu — CPE473 Final Project

Overview

The purpose of this project was to explore rendering skin using a raytracer.

Two main methods were explored—one was purely visual, generating a pov-ray file that would render skin.

The way to go about this was to have 3 refractive nested spheres, each representing a layer in the skin. The top would

be the dermis; the middle was the blood; the bottom was the muscle.

figure 1

Once put together, they became figure 2

figure 2

Different skin types: left: cheek; middle: normal skin; right: palm/fingertips

The second method that was explored was using the monte carlo method to approximate light-scattering in skin.

As you will see, my implementation was crude and unsuccessful in terms of rendering skin.

Simple scene. Note the red seen on the right sphere that has nothing to do with reflection!

Not correct, but skin does reflect light in weird ways.

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