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Printing spatially-varying reflectance

Authors:

Wojciech Matusik,

Jason Lawrence,

Hendrik P. A. Lensch,

Fabio Pellacini,

Szymon RusinkiewiczAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Volume 28, Issue 5

Pages 1 - 9

https://doi.org/10.1145/1618452.1618474

Published: 01 December 2009 Publication History

Abstract

Although real-world surfaces can exhibit significant variation in materials --- glossy, diffuse, metallic, etc. --- printers are usually used to reproduce color or gray-scale images. We propose a complete system that uses appropriate inks and foils to print documents with a variety of material properties. Given a set of inks with known Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Functions (BRDFs), our system automatically finds the optimal linear combinations to approximate the BRDFs of the target documents. Novel gamut-mapping algorithms preserve the relative glossiness between different BRDFs, and halftoning is used to produce patterns to be sent to the printer. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach with printed samples of a number of measured spatially-varying BRDFs.

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Printing spatially-varying reflectance
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Computer vision representations
        Image representations

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ACM Transactions on Graphics Volume 28, Issue 5

December 2009

646 pages

ISSN:0730-0301

EISSN:1557-7368

DOI:10.1145/1618452

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