Specular reflection

For non-ideal reflectors, the reflection of the light is still the brightest when L=R but decays, rather than disappears, as the angle between L and R increases. One way to achieve this effect is to use cosine of the angle to scale the reflected intensity:

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Lspec=kspec(R,L)p

Phong exponent

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