Publications
Fabricating Microgeometry for Custom Surface Reflectance
Publication
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2009)
Authors
Tim Weyrich, Pieter Peers,Wojciech Matusik, Szymon Rusinkiewicz
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.