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Specular reflection

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Specular reflection is the reflection of light from a surface where at the point of reflection an incident beam is reflected at an (and only at) an angle equal to the angle of incidence (both taken with respwect to the perpendicular at that point. Such behavious is described by Snell's law. This is in contract to Diffuse reflection.

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