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947   Unlike other data-driven material types, the BSDF type is fully
948   supported and all parts of the distribution are properly sampled.
949   .LP
950 + .UL aBSDF
951 + .PP
952 + The aBSDF material is identical to the BSDF type with two important
953 + differences.
954 + First, proxy geometry is not supported, so there is no thickness parameter.
955 + Second, an aBSDF is assumed to have some specular through component
956 + (the 'a' stands for "aperture"), which
957 + is treated specially during the direct calculation and when viewing the
958 + material.
959 + Based on the BSDF data, the coefficient of specular transmission is
960 + determined and used for modifying unscattered shadow and view rays.
961 + .DS
962 + mod aBSDF id
963 + 5+ BSDFfile ux uy uz funcfile transform
964 + 0
965 + 0|3|6|9
966 +     rfdif gfdif bfdif
967 +     rbdif gbdif bbdif
968 +     rtdif gtdif btdif
969 + .DE
970 + .LP
971 + If a material has no specular transmitted component, it is much better
972 + to use the BSDF type with a zero thickness than to use aBSDF.
973 + .LP
974   .UL Antimatter
975   .PP
976   Antimatter is a material that can "subtract" volumes from other volumes.

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