Specular

Here is the specular component animating.

Smooth surfaces result in specular reflection with practically all of the signal being reflected away from the sensor.

Draws a stream of rising, undulating 3D bubbles, rising toward the top of the screen, with transparency and specular reflections. Written by Richard Jones 1998.

Now, if we turn the polarizers around just a little bit, we can actually bring that specular reflection of the skin back in, and you can see she looks kind of shiny and oily at this point.

A more detailed examination of those objects, using the Millstone Hill and Goldstone radar sites as well as optical observations, showed that they were up to 5.6 cm in diameter, of spherical shape and exhibiting characteristics of specular metals.

And in addition, we've actually used polarizers on all the lights just like polarized sunglasses can block the glare off of the road, polarizers can block the shine off of the skin, so we don't get all those specular reflections to take this map.

So, if we use information that comes off of this specular reflection, we can go from a traditional face scan that might have the gross contours of the face and the basic shape, and augment it with information that puts in all of that skin pore structure and fine wrinkles.