EON: A practical energy-preserving rough diffuse BRDF
Abstract
We introduce the "Energy-preserving Oren--Nayar" (EON) model for reflection from rough surfaces. Unlike the popular qualitative Oren--Nayar model (QON) and its variants, our model is energy-preserving via analytical energy compensation. We include self-contained GLSL source code for efficient evaluation of the new model and importance sampling based on a novel technique we term "Clipped Linearly Transformed Cosine" (CLTC) sampling.
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