Beyond mie theory

Light scattering in participating media and translucent materials is typically modeled using the radiative transfer theory. Under assumption of independent between particles, it utilizes several bulk parameters to statistically characterize light-matter interactions at macroscale. To calculate these based on microscale material properties, Lorenz-Mie theory has been considered gold standard. In this paper, we present a generalized framework capable systematically rigorously computing beyond far-field Our technique accounts for wave-optics effects such as diffraction interference well nearby particles. general, can be plugged any renderer supporting scattering, allows arbitrary packing rates particles correlation; demonstrate generality by wide range materials, including anisotropic correlated media.