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On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 11:11:39 +0200, Le_Forgeron <lef### [at] free fr> wro
te:
>> What's the ior for glucose sweets(hard candy)? like Beacon Sparkles o
r
>> candy
>> rolls. I haven't been very successful in getting a realistic candy
>> render.
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>> -Nekar Xenos-
>>
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> It seems that 84% sucrose solution in water has ior about 1.5 (whereas
> water is 1.33), so solid sugar might be around 1.5 to 1.56.
>
> Now the problem might be the laminated sugar on sweets: you might have
> to model an opaque core within a surrounding sugar coating. And here
> come the problem of coincident inner surface (not a problem, just no
> inner surface for the coating)
>
> the coating might be about a millimetre deep. Remember to increase
> max_trace_level.
>
> I wonder if the Subsurface scattering can be used to model that instea
d.
>
Thanks, Le Forgeron,
I didn't consider the sugar coating. Subsurface scattering might be
overkill. Or it might just be the thing that makes it look more realisti
c.
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-Nekar Xenos-
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