Light curve of T CrB, separately illustrated for quiescence and the SAP, fitted with the radiative modeling described in Sect. 7 and the same parameters leading up to the 3D view of Fig. 8. In the panels indicating the quiescence at the top, the two sets of fitting curves differ by the inclusion of the hot spot (following the parameters listed in Sect. 7). In the panels related to the SAP at the bottom, the solid curve is the fitting considering the full system, while the dot-dashed curve isolates the contribution of the sole RG.