Fabricating spatially-varying subsurface scattering

  • Authors:
  • Yue Dong;Jiaping Wang;Fabio Pellacini;Xin Tong;Baining Guo

  • Affiliations:
  • Tsinghua University and Microsoft Research Asia;Microsoft Research Asia;Dartmouth College;Microsoft Research Asia;Tsinghua University and Microsoft Research Asia

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 papers
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Many real world surfaces exhibit translucent appearance due to subsurface scattering. Although various methods exists to measure, edit and render subsurface scattering effects, no solution exists for manufacturing physical objects with desired translucent appearance. In this paper, we present a complete solution for fabricating a material volume with a desired surface BSSRDF. We stack layers from a fixed set of manufacturing materials whose thickness is varied spatially to reproduce the heterogeneity of the input BSSRDF. Given an input BSSRDF and the optical properties of the manufacturing materials, our system efficiently determines the optimal order and thickness of the layers. We demonstrate our approach by printing a variety of homogenous and heterogenous BSSRDFs using two hardware setups: a milling machine and a 3D printer.