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. 2020 Jun 16;117(24):13191-13193.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.2007735117. Epub 2020 Jun 2.

Perceiving transparency from opaque surface materials

James Todd  1
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Perceiving transparency from opaque surface materials

James Todd. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
Images of objects with draped cloth. (Left) A sculpture of The Veiled Virgin by Giovanni Strazza, which appears as a human face with a transparent veil draped over it. (Right) A computer simulation of a sphere with an opaque cloth draped over it. Note, in both cases, that it is possible to determine which regions are in contact with the underlying object and which ones are not.
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