Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Nomenclature; Acronyms; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Light, optics, and appearance; Chapter 3. Image-synthesis context; Chapter 4. Bio-optical properties of human skin; Chapter 5. Simulations in health and life sciences; Chapter 6. Biophysically inspired approach; Chapter 7. First principles approach; Chapter 8. Diffusion approximation approach; Chapter 9. Simulation challenges; Chapter 10. Beyond computer graphics applications; References; Index
Summary
Light and Skin Interactions immerses you in one of the most fascinating application areas of computer graphics: appearance simulation. The book first illuminates the fundamental biophysical processes that affect skin appearance, and reviews seminal related works aimed at applications in life and health sciences. It then examines four exemplary modeling approaches as well as definitive algorithms that can be used to generate realistic images depicting skin appearance. An accompanying companion site also includes complete code and data sources for the BioSpec model, which is considered to be the