Fabricating BRDFs at high spatial resolution using wave optics

Recent attempts to fabricate surfaces with custom reflectance functions boast impressive angular resolution, yet their spatial resolution is limited. In this paper we present a method to construct spatially varying reflectance at a high resolution of up to 220dpi, orders of magnitude greater than pr...

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Main Authors: Levin, Anat, Glasner, Daniel, Xiong, Ying, Matusik, Wojciech, Zickler, Todd, Durand, Fredo, Freeman, William T.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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Language:en_US
Published: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86140
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0212-5643
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author Levin, Anat
Glasner, Daniel
Xiong, Ying
Matusik, Wojciech
Zickler, Todd
Durand, Fredo
Freeman, William T.
author2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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Levin, Anat
Glasner, Daniel
Xiong, Ying
Matusik, Wojciech
Zickler, Todd
Durand, Fredo
Freeman, William T.
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description Recent attempts to fabricate surfaces with custom reflectance functions boast impressive angular resolution, yet their spatial resolution is limited. In this paper we present a method to construct spatially varying reflectance at a high resolution of up to 220dpi, orders of magnitude greater than previous attempts, albeit with a lower angular resolution. The resolution of previous approaches is limited by the machining, but more fundamentally, by the geometric optics model on which they are built. Beyond a certain scale geometric optics models break down and wave effects must be taken into account. We present an analysis of incoherent reflectance based on wave optics and gain important insights into reflectance design. We further suggest and demonstrate a practical method, which takes into account the limitations of existing micro-fabrication techniques such as photolithography to design and fabricate a range of reflection effects, based on wave interference.
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spelling mit-1721.1/861402022-09-30T17:55:07Z Fabricating BRDFs at high spatial resolution using wave optics Levin, Anat Glasner, Daniel Xiong, Ying Matusik, Wojciech Zickler, Todd Durand, Fredo Freeman, William T. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Durand, Fredo Freeman, William T. Matusik, Wojciech Recent attempts to fabricate surfaces with custom reflectance functions boast impressive angular resolution, yet their spatial resolution is limited. In this paper we present a method to construct spatially varying reflectance at a high resolution of up to 220dpi, orders of magnitude greater than previous attempts, albeit with a lower angular resolution. The resolution of previous approaches is limited by the machining, but more fundamentally, by the geometric optics model on which they are built. Beyond a certain scale geometric optics models break down and wave effects must be taken into account. We present an analysis of incoherent reflectance based on wave optics and gain important insights into reflectance design. We further suggest and demonstrate a practical method, which takes into account the limitations of existing micro-fabrication techniques such as photolithography to design and fabricate a range of reflection effects, based on wave interference. United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation Intel Corporation (Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Computational Intelligence) National Science Foundation (U.S.) (CGV 1116303) 2014-04-14T13:13:47Z 2014-04-14T13:13:47Z 2013-07 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 07300301 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86140 Anat Levin, Daniel Glasner, Ying Xiong, Fredo Durand, William Freeman, Wojciech Matusik, and Todd Zickler. 2013. Fabricating BRDFs at high spatial resolution using wave optics. ACM Trans. Graph. 32, 4, Article 144 (July 2013), 14 pages. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0212-5643 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9919-069X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2231-7995 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2461912.2461981 ACM Transactions on Graphics Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Other repository
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title_short Fabricating BRDFs at high spatial resolution using wave optics
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