I decided to take a closer look at atmospheric scattering in my master thesis. I guess everyone who is interested in this kind of topic once stumbled over Bruneton's precomputed atmospheric scattering model (paper found here), as it is considered the most accurate and realistic scattering model to date. While the paper itself is really good, its a bit short and only introduces the general idea (as most papers do). Although, Bruneton provides the associated source code on his homepage, many people (including me) had problems understanding how it really works. I dont know how many hours (or even days …
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