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Previous Work


Phong Illumination Model (1975)

  • Accounts for specular reflection
  • Linear combination model

Blinn Illumination Model (1977)

  • Improved specular component based on work by Torrance and Sparrow in 1967




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Phong (left) and Blinn (right) illumination models applied to a sphere.



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