PBRT_V2 总结记录 <30> SpecularTransmission

推导 specular transmission 的 BTDF

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We will now derive the BTDF for specular transmission

 

Figure 8.8: The amount of transmitted radiance at the boundary between media with different
indices of refraction is scaled by the squared ratio of the two indices of refraction. Intuitively, this can
be understood as the result of the radiance’s differential solid angle being compressed or expanded
as a result of transmission.

 

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Consider incident radiance arriving at the boundary between two media, with indices of
refraction ηi and ηo for the incoming and outgoing media, respectively (Figure 8.8). We
use τ to denote the fraction of incident energy that is transmitted to the outgoing direction,
as given by the Fresnel equations, so τ = 1− Fr(ωi). The amount of transmitted
differential flux, then, is

If we use the definition of radiance, Equation (5.2), we have

Expanding the solid angles to spherical angles, we have

We can now differentiate Snell’s law with respect to θ, which gives the relation

（上面的这里其实就是对 Snell's law 进行微分  ）

Rearranging terms