There is a faint sensation of translucency, I wonder if that's an artefact of the process, or if it's the actual optics of the surface layer if the strawberry...

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danybittel 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's an artefact unfortunately. Gaussian splats have no concept of refraction and have a hard time dealing with reflection. Highlights, usually so so. Something I always wrangle.

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zokier 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I wonder if that is somehow related to how you seem to have very strong studio light for the subjects? Somehow the bright light penetrating deeper into the material or something like that

	▲	danybittel 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The light doesn't need to be completely flat like what you'd do when scanning it more traditionally, for meshing. The problem is when the highlight is sharp and reflects it's surrounding. You could remove it, with cross polarization.. But then it wouldn't look realistic anymore.

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vanderZwan 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Well, at certain angles you actually get very noticeable gaps in the strawberry that are visible when rotating it, but almost invisible when static. I think it's mostly due to that.