Advanced foil interface law

Description

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Specular material with advanced foil interface law modelling a 3mm blue glass sheet with 8nm gold plating

Interface law The Advanced foil interface law is similar to the Thick foil interface law, but it adds the following features:

  • Custom child interface laws at both sides of the foil

  • Variable foil thickness

  • Optional birefringence anisotropy fields

The refractive indices of scene media located in front and behind the surface are taken into account, as well as the properties of the layer. The latter is defined by an internal medium defined in the law element, and a thickness shader.

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Rendering tempering marks

The polarization state of light is computed accurately by this law.

This law is well suited for coated flat glass sheets and polymer foils, and can model very well glass tempering marks.

Note

Using this feature requires an Advanced Edition license

Children Nodes

Interface law external

The foil external interface law

Interface law internal

The foil internal interface law

Dielectric function dielectricfunc

The foil dielectric function

Scalar shader thickness

The foil thickness

Scalar shader mx2

Foil anisotropy along the x axis

Scalar shader my2

Foil anisotropy along the y axis

Scalar shader mxy

Foil anisotropy along the xy axis

Parameters

name

type

description

thickness

real

The foil thickness in meters

Ocean XML 6.1 example

<intlaw type="advfoil" name="intlaw">
     <intlaw type="thinfilm" name="external" thickness="8e-09">
             <dielectricfunc type="linked" name="dielectricfunc" target="ocean-metals::Au"/>
     </intlaw>
     <intlaw type="fresnel" name="internal"/>
     <dielectricfunc type="linked" name="dielectricfunc" target="ocean-building-glass::blue"/>
     <scalarshader type="uniform" name="thickness" value="0.003"/>
</intlaw>