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What is the "dipole approximation" for subsurface scattering?

If you read papers about subsurface scattering, you'll frequently come across references to something called the "dipole approximation". This term seems to go back to the paper A Practical Model for ...

rendering subsurface-scattering

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asked Aug 6, 2015 at 6:34

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