Specular Reflection

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Light reflected about the surface normal, concentrated in a lobe whose width is set by how rough the interface is.

• supersedescorrects · extends
• classifiesspecializes · part-of
• substitutes forapproximates · alternative-to
• depends onrequires · validates

Colour is the family; a dashed line is the second member of it.

This node

• part-ofis a subtopic of Reflection

Referenced by

• specializesPhong is a specific case of thisan ad hoc cosine-power lobe with no physical basis
• approximatesScreen-Space Reflections is a cheaper stand-in for thisreuses the frame buffer instead of tracing the scene
• extendsWard Anisotropic Model adds capability to thisroughness differs along two tangent directions

References

• Background — Specular reflection on Wikipedia