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abstract:
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text: Color texture reproduction in 3D printing commonly ignores volumetric light
transport (cross-talk) between surface points on a 3D print. Such light diffusion
leads to significant blur of details and color bleeding, and is particularly severe
for highly translucent resin-based print materials. Given their widely varying
scattering properties, this cross-talk between surface points strongly depends
on the internal structure of the volume surrounding each surface point. Existing
scattering-aware methods use simplified models for light diffusion, and often
accept the visual blur as an immutable property of the print medium. In contrast,
our work counteracts heterogeneous scattering to obtain the impression of a crisp
albedo texture on top of the 3D print, by optimizing for a fully volumetric material
distribution that preserves the target appearance. Our method employs an efficient
numerical optimizer on top of a general Monte-Carlo simulation of heterogeneous
scattering, supported by a practical calibration procedure to obtain scattering
parameters from a given set of printer materials. Despite the inherent translucency
of the medium, we reproduce detailed surface textures on 3D prints. We evaluate
our system using a commercial, five-tone 3D print process and compare against
the printer’s native color texturing mode, demonstrating that our method preserves
high-frequency features well without having to compromise on color gamut.
article_number: '241'
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author:
- first_name: Oskar
full_name: Elek, Oskar
last_name: Elek
- first_name: Denis
full_name: Sumin, Denis
last_name: Sumin
- first_name: Ran
full_name: Zhang, Ran
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last_name: Zhang
orcid: 0000-0002-3808-281X
- first_name: Tim
full_name: Weyrich, Tim
last_name: Weyrich
- first_name: Karol
full_name: Myszkowski, Karol
last_name: Myszkowski
- first_name: Bernd
full_name: Bickel, Bernd
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last_name: Bickel
orcid: 0000-0001-6511-9385
- first_name: Alexander
full_name: Wilkie, Alexander
last_name: Wilkie
- first_name: Jaroslav
full_name: Krivanek, Jaroslav
last_name: Krivanek
citation:
ama: Elek O, Sumin D, Zhang R, et al. Scattering-aware texture reproduction for
3D printing. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 2017;36(6). doi:10.1145/3130800.3130890
apa: Elek, O., Sumin, D., Zhang, R., Weyrich, T., Myszkowski, K., Bickel, B., …
Krivanek, J. (2017). Scattering-aware texture reproduction for 3D printing. ACM
Transactions on Graphics. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3130800.3130890
chicago: Elek, Oskar, Denis Sumin, Ran Zhang, Tim Weyrich, Karol Myszkowski, Bernd
Bickel, Alexander Wilkie, and Jaroslav Krivanek. “Scattering-Aware Texture Reproduction
for 3D Printing.” ACM Transactions on Graphics. ACM, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1145/3130800.3130890.
ieee: O. Elek et al., “Scattering-aware texture reproduction for 3D printing,”
ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 36, no. 6. ACM, 2017.
ista: Elek O, Sumin D, Zhang R, Weyrich T, Myszkowski K, Bickel B, Wilkie A, Krivanek
J. 2017. Scattering-aware texture reproduction for 3D printing. ACM Transactions
on Graphics. 36(6), 241.
mla: Elek, Oskar, et al. “Scattering-Aware Texture Reproduction for 3D Printing.”
ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 36, no. 6, 241, ACM, 2017, doi:10.1145/3130800.3130890.
short: O. Elek, D. Sumin, R. Zhang, T. Weyrich, K. Myszkowski, B. Bickel, A. Wilkie,
J. Krivanek, ACM Transactions on Graphics 36 (2017).
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:46:44Z
date_published: 2017-11-20T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-09-07T13:11:15Z
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