"Fabricating Microgeometry for Custom Surface Reflectance"
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 28, Issue 3, Article 32, July 2009
Abstract
We propose a system for manufacturing physical surfaces that, in aggregate, exhibit a desired surface appearance. Our system begins with a user specification of a BRDF, or simply a highlight shape, and infers the required distribution of surface slopes. We sample this distribution, optimize for a maximally-continuous and valley-minimizing height field, and finally mill the surface using a computer-controlled machine tool. We demonstrate a variety of surfaces, ranging from reproductions of measured BRDFs to materials with unconventional highlights.
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ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 28, Issue 3, Article 32, July 2009
AbstractWe propose a system for manufacturing physical surfaces that, in aggregate, exhibit a desired surface appearance. Our system begins with a user specification of a BRDF, or simply a highlight shape, and infers the required distribution of surface slopes. We sample this distribution, optimize for a maximally-continuous and valley-minimizing height field, and finally mill the surface using a computer-controlled machine tool. We demonstrate a variety of surfaces, ranging from reproductions of measured BRDFs to materials with unconventional highlights.
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@article{Weyrich:2009:FMC,
author = {Weyrich, Tim and Peers, Pieter and Matusik, Wojciech and Rusinkiewicz, Szymon},
title = {Fabricating Microgeometry for Custom Surface Reflectance},
month = {July},
year = {2009},
articleno = {32},
journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics},
volume = {28},
number = {3},
doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1531326.1531338},
}
author = {Weyrich, Tim and Peers, Pieter and Matusik, Wojciech and Rusinkiewicz, Szymon},
title = {Fabricating Microgeometry for Custom Surface Reflectance},
month = {July},
year = {2009},
articleno = {32},
journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics},
volume = {28},
number = {3},
doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1531326.1531338},
}