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Physical Reproduction of Materials with Specified Subsurface Scattering

ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), August 2010

Miloš Hašan, Martin Fuchs, Wojciech Matusik,
Hanspeter Pfister, Szymon Rusinkiewicz
Abstract

We investigate a complete pipeline for measuring, modeling, and fabricating objects with specified subsurface scattering behaviors. The process starts with measuring the scattering properties of a given set of base materials, determining their radial reflection and transmission profiles. We describe a mathematical model that predicts the profiles of different stackings of base materials, at arbitrary thicknesses. In an inverse process, we can then specify a desired reflection profile and compute a layered composite material that best approximates it. Our algorithm efficiently searches the space of possible combinations of base materials, pruning unsatisfactory states imposed by physical constraints. We validate our process by producing both homogeneous and heterogeneous composites fabricated using a multi-material 3D printer. We demonstrate reproductions that have scattering properties approximating complex materials.
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Miloš Hašan, Martin Fuchs, Wojciech Matusik, Hanspeter Pfister, and Szymon Rusinkiewicz.
"Physical Reproduction of Materials with Specified Subsurface Scattering."
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH) 29(3), August 2010.

BibTeX

@article{Hasan:2010:PRO,
   author = "Milo{\v s} Ha{\v s}an and Martin Fuchs and Wojciech Matusik and
      Hanspeter Pfister and Szymon Rusinkiewicz",
   title = "Physical Reproduction of Materials with Specified Subsurface Scattering",
   journal = "ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH)",
   year = "2010",
   month = aug,
   volume = "29",
   number = "3"
}