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Realistic Real-Time Skin
Rendering on Mobile
Renaldas Zioma and Ole Ciliox
1.1 Introduction
Rendering realistic human skin has always been a challenge. Skin and especially
faces have many subtle properties to which our brain and eyes are very well
adapted. As observers we are very quick to spot discrepancies and missing details
in shading of the skin—and reject them as implausible.
Despite these challenges, the task of rendering realistic skin in real time has
became possible in recent years [Jimenez 12] using the power of modern GPUs
and physically based shading models. In this chapter we will discuss how to adopt
the most visually important aspects ...