---
title: "Fabricating Spatially-Varying Subsurface Scattering"
authors: ["Yue Dong", "Jiaping Wang", "Fabio Pellacini", "Xin Tong", "Baining Guo"]
year: 2010
venue: "ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH)"
arxiv: null
doi: "10.1145/1833349.1778799"
source: "https://doi.org/10.1145/1833349.1778799"
topics: [translucent-materials]
seed_rank: 1300
seed_batch: "sss-translucent-2026-08-25"
reviewed: "2026-08-25"
pool: "graphics"
relevance_score: 8
lineage: translucent-materials
cites:
  - title: "Modeling and Rendering of Heterogeneous Translucent Materials using the Diffusion Equation"
    url: "https://doi.org/10.1145/1330511.1330520"
    year: 2008
    arxiv: null
    doi: "10.1145/1330511.1330520"
  - title: "Physical Reproduction of Materials with Specified Subsurface Scattering"
    url: "https://doi.org/10.1145/1778765.1778798"
    year: 2010
    arxiv: null
    doi: "10.1145/1778765.1778798"
see:
  - "1286-modeling-and-rendering-of-heterogeneous-translucent-materials-using"
  - "1302-physical-reproduction-of-materials-with-specified-subsurface"
---

# Fabricating Spatially-Varying Subsurface Scattering

## One-sentence takeaway

Dong et al.: print spatially-varying translucent materials with designed BSSRDF.

## Problem

Predecessor chain Hasan 2010; Wang diffusion equation. This paper's job: Dong et al.: print spatially-varying translucent materials with designed BSSRDF.

## Design

Dong et al.: print spatially-varying translucent materials with designed BSSRDF. Lineage: Hasan 2010; Wang diffusion equation.

## Evidence

ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH) 2010. DOI `10.1145/1833349.1778799`. Dong et al.: print spatially-varying translucent materials with designed BSSRDF.

## Limitations

Acquisition or fabrication paper, not an integrator. Assumes a forward SSS model.

## Implications for Broadside

Anoptic has a forward+ mesh renderer and is betting on FMM+RC 3D GI. Skin is the first character-appearance hole: translucent dermis, not another BRDF lobe. Do not claim Anoptic already has SSS.

## Bottom line

Mint this 2010 ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH) paper. Dong et al.: print spatially-varying translucent materials with designed BSSRDF.

## Links

- DOI: [10.1145/1833349.1778799](https://doi.org/10.1145/1833349.1778799)