Material capture and representation with applications in virtual reality
Giuseppe Claudio Guarnera, Abhijeet Ghosh, Ian Hall, Mashhuda Glencross, Dar’ya Guarnera · 2017
Currently, rendering systems are able to produce photorealistic simulations of the appearance of many real-world materials. In the real world, viewer perception of objects depends on the lighting and object/material/surface characteristics, the way a surface interacts with the light and on how the light is reflected, scattered, absorbed by the surface and the impact these characteristics have on material appearance. In order to re-produce this, it is necessary to understand how materials interact with light. Thus the representation and acquisition of material models has become such an active research area. However, no material model nor acquisition setup is without limitations in terms of the variety of existing materials and they range considerably in terms of portability and ease of use.