Design Tools for Material Appearance

Holly Rushmeier
(Yale)
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Date: Oct 27, 2021
Description:
The design of material appearance for both virtual and physical design remains a challenging problem. There aren’t straightforward intuitive techniques as there are in geometric design where shapes can be sketched or assembled from geometric primitives. In this talk I will present a series of contributions to developing intuitive appearance design tools. This includes studies of material appearance perception which form the basis of the development of perceptual axes for reflectance distribution design. I will also present novel interfaces for design including hybrid slider/image navigation and augmented reality interfaces. I will discuss the unique problems involved in designing appearance for objects to be physically manufactured rather than simply displayed in virtual environments. Finally, I will show how exemplars of spatially varying materials can be inverted to produce procedural models.
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Created: Friday, October 29th, 2021