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  • Capturing textures albedo

    Building a Portable PBR Texture Scanner by Stephane Lb
    http://rtgfx.com/pbr-texture-scanner/

     

     

    How To Split Specular And Diffuse In Real Images, by John Hable
    http://filmicworlds.com/blog/how-to-split-specular-and-diffuse-in-real-images/

     

    Capturing albedo using a Spectralon
    https://www.activision.com/cdn/research/Real_World_Measurements_for_Call_of_Duty_Advanced_Warfare.pdf

    Real_World_Measurements_for_Call_of_Duty_Advanced_Warfare.pdf

    Spectralon is a teflon-based pressed powderthat comes closest to being a pure Lambertian diffuse material that reflects 100% of all light. If we take an HDR photograph of the Spectralon alongside the material to be measured, we can derive thediffuse albedo of that material.

     

    The process to capture diffuse reflectance is very similar to the one outlined by Hable.

     

    1. We put a linear polarizing filter in front of the camera lens and a second linear polarizing filterin front of a modeling light or a flash such that the two filters are oriented perpendicular to eachother, i.e. cross polarized.

     

    2. We place Spectralon close to and parallel with the material we are capturing and take brack-eted shots of the setup7. Typically, we’ll take nine photographs, from -4EV to +4EV in 1EVincrements.

     

    3. We convert the bracketed shots to a linear HDR image. We found that many HDR packagesdo not produce an HDR image in which the pixel values are linear. PTGui is an example of apackage which does generate a linear HDR image. At this point, because of the cross polarization,the image is one of surface diffuse response.

     

    4. We open the file in Photoshop and normalize the image by color picking the Spectralon, filling anew layer with that color and setting that layer to “Divide”. This sets the Spectralon to 1 in theimage. All other color values are relative to this so we can consider them as diffuse albedo.

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  • Space bodies’ components and light spectroscopy

    www.plutorules.com/page-111-space-rocks.html

    This help’s us understand the composition of components in/on solar system bodies.

    Dips in the observed light spectrum, also known as, lines of absorption occur as gasses absorb energy from light at specific points along the light spectrum.

    These dips or darkened zones (lines of absorption) leave a finger print which identify elements and compounds.

    In this image the dark absorption bands appear as lines of emission which occur as the result of emitted not reflected (absorbed) light.

     

     

     

    Lines of absorption

     
    Lines of emission
     
     
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  • What light is best to illuminate gems for resale

    www.palagems.com/gem-lighting2

     

    Artificial light sources, not unlike the diverse phases of natural light, vary considerably in their properties. As a result, some lamps render an object’s color better than others do.

     

    The most important criterion for assessing the color-rendering ability of any lamp is its spectral power distribution curve.

     

    Natural daylight varies too much in strength and spectral composition to be taken seriously as a lighting standard for grading and dealing colored stones. For anything to be a standard, it must be constant in its properties, which natural light is not.

     

    For dealers in particular to make the transition from natural light to an artificial light source, that source must offer:
    1- A degree of illuminance at least as strong as the common phases of natural daylight.
    2- Spectral properties identical or comparable to a phase of natural daylight.

     

    A source combining these two things makes gems appear much the same as when viewed under a given phase of natural light. From the viewpoint of many dealers, this corresponds to a naturalappearance.

     

    The 6000° Kelvin xenon short-arc lamp appears closest to meeting the criteria for a standard light source. Besides the strong illuminance this lamp affords, its spectrum is very similar to CIE standard illuminants of similar color temperature.

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