Patent ID: 8237729

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for texturing a modeled surface, the method comprising: receiving, in a computer device, an albedo map corresponding to light scattering under uniform incident diffuse light; determining, using the computer device and the albedo map, a local scattering parameter for a multipole bidirectional scattering surface reflectance distribution function (BSSRDF); wherein determining the local scattering parameter comprises use of an inversion of a first formula that relates diffuse reflectance to at least the local scattering parameter, the first formula based in part on a first value that approximates diffuse reflectance in a dipole representation of a bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) and a second value that is combined with the first value to approximate diffuse reflectance in a multipole representation of the BRDF; and texturing, using the computer device, a modeled surface for display on a display device using the BSSRDF and the local scattering parameter.