Dynamic Display of BRDFs

Matthias B. Hullin, Hendrik P. A. Lensch, Ramesh Raskar, Hans-Peter Seidel, Ivo Ihrke
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EUROGRAPHICS), 2011.

Abstract

This paper deals with the challenge of physically displaying reflectance, i.e., the appearance of a surface and its variation with the observer position and the illuminating environment. This is commonly described by the bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF). We provide a catalogue of criteria for the display of BRDFs, and sketch a few orthogonal approaches to solving the problem in an optically passive way. Our specific implementation is based on a liquid surface, on which we excite waves in order to achieve a varying degree of anisotropic roughness. The resulting probability density function of the surface normal is shown to follow a Gaussian distribution similar to most established BRDF models.

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@INPROCEEDINGS{HullinEG2011, AUTHOR = {Hullin, Matthias B. and Lensch, Hendrik P. A. and Raskar, Ramesh and Seidel, Hans-Peter and Ihrke, Ivo}, EDITOR = {Deussen, Oliver and Chen, Min}, TITLE = {Dynamic Display of {BRDFs}}, BOOKTITLE = {Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EUROGRAPHICS)}, ORGANIZATION = {Eurographics}, PADDRESS = {Oxford, UK}, ADDRESS = {Llandudno, UK}, PUBLISHER = {Blackwell}, YEAR = {2011}, PAGES = {475--483}, }