"Improving Schlick’s Approximation of the Fresnel Equations"
https://www.photometric.io/blog/improving-schlicks-approximation/
Improving Schlick's Approximation of the Fresnel Equations - Photometric.io

As a first test the Fresnel equations seemed like a good fit. These describe the reflection and transmission of light and are therefore very relevant for

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@shamanix Comparing it to Schlick on dielectrics I didn’t find the delta relevant. But on conductors, unless the dip around the 80 degrees is prominent it doesn’t do a great job at them, and for commonly authored metals it doesn’t do as well as Schlick. It doesn’t do much better on chromium which is a material Schlick is known to not reproduce well, it does better on aluminum (probably why it was shown), but on other conductors it isn’t much better and can be worse like on gold or silver.
@shamanix anyway, that’s what I found after some quick plotting of data after being awake too early to watch the F1 race 😅