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From: leech@homer.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
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Subject: Re: Lambert's Law & the Moon
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Date: 27 Nov 90 16:05:23 GMT
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In article <9237@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, ph@miro.Berkeley.EDU (Paul
Heckbert) writes:
|>As others have mentioned, the moon and other dusty surfaces are not
Lambertian.
|>Blinn, in the paper cited below, says they follow the Hapke-Irvine
|>illumination model more closely.

	This may also be of interest, although rather more technical than
most computer graphics papers. A good deal of work would need to be done to
convert the results into a lighting model.

	Lumme & Bowell, _Radiative Transfer in the Surfaces of Atmosphereless
Bodies_, The Astronomical Journal 86:11, November 1981. This covers radiative
transfer with multiple scattering in porous, rough surfaces.