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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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article_type: original
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. <i>ACM Transactions on Graphics</i>. 2017;36(6). doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3130800.3130890">10.1145/3130800.3130890</a>
  apa: Elek, O., Sumin, D., Zhang, R., Weyrich, T., Myszkowski, K., Bickel, B., …
    Krivanek, J. (2017). Scattering-aware texture reproduction for 3D printing. <i>ACM
    Transactions on Graphics</i>. ACM. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3130800.3130890">https://doi.org/10.1145/3130800.3130890</a>
  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.” <i>ACM Transactions on Graphics</i>. ACM, 2017. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3130800.3130890">https://doi.org/10.1145/3130800.3130890</a>.
  ieee: O. Elek <i>et al.</i>, “Scattering-aware texture reproduction for 3D printing,”
    <i>ACM Transactions on Graphics</i>, 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.”
    <i>ACM Transactions on Graphics</i>, vol. 36, no. 6, 241, ACM, 2017, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3130800.3130890">10.1145/3130800.3130890</a>.
  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: 2026-04-16T10:06:19Z
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