Single Scattering in Scenes containing Semi-Transparent Objects and Participating Media: Researching, solving and evaluating single scattering and transparency as a single problem

Volumetric light scattering caused by participating media has been and still is a complicated, but visually pleasing lighting effect that increases the sense of realism of digital scenes tremendously. Various solutions to rendering these effects in real-time exist, basing themselves upon the single scattering approximation. Transparency is...