Title
Optimizing BRDF orientations for the manipulation of anisotropic highlights
Abstract
This paper introduces a system for the direct editing of highlights produced by anisotropic BRDFs, which we call anisotropic highlights. We first provide a comprehensive analysis of the link between the direction of anisotropy and the shape of highlight curves for arbitrary object surfaces. The gained insights provide the required ingredients to infer BRDF orientations from a prescribed highlight tangent field. This amounts to a non-linear optimization problem, which is solved at interactive framerates during manipulation. Taking inspiration from sculpting software, we provide tools that give the impression of manipulating highlight curves while actually modifying their tangents. Our solver produces desired highlight shapes for a host of lighting environments and anisotropic BRDFs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1111/cgf.12300
Comput. Graph. Forum
Field
DocType
Volume
Bidirectional reflectance distribution function,Computer vision,Anisotropy,Computer graphics (images),Impression,Computer science,Tangent,Software,Artificial intelligence,Solver,Optimization problem
Journal
33
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0167-7055
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.45
12
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Boris Raymond170.45
Gaël Guennebaud270228.95
Pascal Barla355329.07
Romain Pacanowski4888.22
Xavier Granier535728.97