"Orchid XP v2" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> You can get a similar effect using a powerful light source (e.g., a
> multi-billion-ton nuclear fision reactor like the Sun) through your own
> eyelids.

The sun is a fusion reactor, not fission

> Bringing this back on-topic... I presume this is the "subsurface
> scattering" everybody keeps babbling about?

Yup. You can also fake it pretty well with media. Is what I do with candles
any time I use them. Give the candle a slightly transparent texture then
fill it with scattering media. Is not that slow (scattering {1 rgb 1})

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