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Isotropic Shading
Isotropic shading is the most common method of shading 3D objects. A flat shading is applied to each face of a polygon, either in a fill colour or a gradient. Such shading is computationally cheap and produces realistic shading on all flat or smooth surfaces. Since these make up the majority of surfaces encountered in most environments, this is considered good enough when combined with texture maps, for most applications.
When additional detail is required, another method known as anisotropic shading can be utilised instead. This treats the grain of the texture of each face as a light-reflective terrain, but is correspondingly much more computationally expensive.
See Also: Anisotropic Shading, Eye Guiding, Depth Cues, Render Pass, Continuous Shading, Face shading, Phong shading
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(03/07/2009)
(Press Release) LightWork Design, supplier of rendering solutions for developers of advanced 3D computer graphics software, has announced the release of LightWorks 8.1 which provides LightWorks customers with yet more enhanced rendering fun...
(14/02/2008)
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(18/06/2012)
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