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10.8 Choosing Material Properties

OpenGL provides a full lighting model to help produce realistic objects. The library provides no guidance, however, on finding the proper lighting material parameters to simulate specific materials. This section categorizes common materials, provides some guidance for choosing representative material properties, and provides a table of material properties for common materials.



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