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Image-based brdf measurement.

Stephen R. Marschner, Eric P. F. Lafortune, Stephen H. Westin, , Kenneth E. Torrance, and Donald P. Greenberg.

Technical report PCG-99-1, Program of Computer Graphics, Cornell University, Jan 1999.

We present a new image-based process for measuring surface reflectance rapidly, completely, and accurately. Requiring only a digital camera, a light source, and a convex curved test sample, our method can measure the BRDF with high resolution and accuracy over a very large domain of illumination and reflection directions. We have verified our measurements both by tests of internal consistency and by comparison against measurements made using a gonioreflectometer.

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