---
title: "Modeling and Rendering of Weathered Stone"
authors: ["Julie Dorsey", "Alan Edelman", "Henrik Wann Jensen", "Justin Legakis", "Hans Køhling Pedersen"]
year: 1999
venue: "SIGGRAPH"
arxiv: null
doi: "10.1145/311535.311563"
source: "https://doi.org/10.1145/311535.311563"
topics: [subsurface-scattering, translucent-materials]
seed_rank: 1303
seed_batch: "sss-translucent-2026-08-25"
reviewed: "2026-08-25"
pool: "graphics"
relevance_score: 8
lineage: translucent-materials
cites:
  - title: "The Rendering Equation"
    url: "https://doi.org/10.1145/15922.15902"
    year: 1986
    arxiv: null
    doi: "10.1145/15922.15902"
  - title: "Global Illumination using Photon Maps"
    url: "https://graphics.stanford.edu/~henrik/papers/ewr7/ewr7.html"
    year: 1996
    arxiv: null
    doi: null
  - title: "Efficient Simulation of Light Transport in Scenes with Participating Media using Photon Maps"
    url: "https://doi.org/10.1145/280814.280925"
    year: 1998
    arxiv: null
    doi: "10.1145/280814.280925"
see:
  - "152-the-rendering-equation"
  - "374-global-illumination-using-photon-maps"
  - "1268-efficient-simulation-of-light-transport-in-scenes-with-participating"
---

# Modeling and Rendering of Weathered Stone

## One-sentence takeaway

Photon-mapped marble SSS before the dipole paper.

## Problem

Predecessor chain JC98 → weathered stone. This paper's job: Photon-mapped marble SSS before the dipole paper.

## Design

Photon-mapped marble SSS before the dipole paper. Lineage: JC98 → weathered stone.

## Evidence

SIGGRAPH 1999. DOI `10.1145/311535.311563`. Photon-mapped marble SSS before the dipole paper.

## Limitations

Read the cited predecessors before treating this as a drop-in Anoptic shader. Do not claim the library already implements it.

## Implications for Broadside

FMM+RC is Anoptic's far-field 3D GI bet. Participating-media / SSS is the missing local transport operator inside skin, marble, wax, and interiors. Do not claim they already have SSS.

## Bottom line

Mint this 1999 SIGGRAPH paper. Photon-mapped marble SSS before the dipole paper.

## Links

- DOI: [10.1145/311535.311563](https://doi.org/10.1145/311535.311563)