October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
500 pages
12h 40m
English
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Phong Reflection Model
The Phong reflection model describes the way a surface reflects the light as the sum of three types of reflection: ambient, diffuse, and specular. It was developed by Bui Tuong Phong, who published it in his 1973 PhD dissertation:
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