Intuitive and Accurate Material Design and Editing

ISBN-13: 9786200535917 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str.

Weiqi Shi

Opis

Creating and editing high-quality materials for photorealistic rendering can be a difficult task due to the diversity and complexity of material appearance. Material design is the process by which artists specify the reflectance properties of a surface, such as its diffuse color and specular roughness. Even with the support of commercial software packages, material design can be a time-consuming trial-and-error task due to the counter-intuitive nature of the complex reflectance models. Moreover, many material design tasks require the physical realization of virtually designed materials as the final step, which makes the process even more challenging due to rendering artifacts and the limitations of fabrication.In this book, we propose a series of studies and novel techniques to improve the intuitiveness and accuracy of material design and editing. Our goal is to understand how humans visually perceive materials, simplify user interaction in the design process and, and improve the accuracy of the physical fabrication of designs.

O autorze

Shi, WeiqiWeiqi Shi - Senior Software Engineer at Roblox. He received his PhD at Yale University working in Computer Graphics, Perception and Machine Learning. His work has been published in top conferences and journals such as Siggraph, Eurographics & TVCG. He received his bachelor degree from Tsinghua University. This book is based on his PhD dissertation.