s_material Struct Reference

A material has a surface color and four attributes from the Phong Reflection Model: ambient, diffuse, specular and shininess. Each one of these attributes accept a non negative floating point number. For ambient, diffuse and specular, the typical values are between 0 and 1. For shininess, values between 10 (very large highlight) and 200 (very small) highlight seem to work best, though there is no actual upper bound. More...

#include <materials.h>

Collaboration diagram for s_material:

Data Fields
t_color	color
t_color	ambient
float	diffuse
float	specular
float	shininess
t_pattern	pattern

Detailed Description

A material has a surface color and four attributes from the Phong Reflection Model: ambient, diffuse, specular and shininess. Each one of these attributes accept a non negative floating point number. For ambient, diffuse and specular, the typical values are between 0 and 1. For shininess, values between 10 (very large highlight) and 200 (very small) highlight seem to work best, though there is no actual upper bound.

Parameters

color	Stores the material's color in RGB values.
ambient	Represents the background lighting or the light reflected from other objects in the enviroment.
diffuse	Represents the light reflected from a matted surface. It depends only on the angle between the light source and surface normal.
specular	Represents the reflection of the light source itself and results in the bright sport on a curved surface. It depends on the angle between the reflection vector and the eye vector. Thus, it's also controlled by the parameter shininess.
shininess	Represents the shininess. The higher the shininess, the smaller and tigher the specular highlight.
pattern	Represents the pattern texture of a given material. It can be a striped or a checkered pattern.