MERL BRDF Database

Computer Graphics · Materials and BSDFs · 2003 · merl-database.yaml

Densely measured reflectance for a hundred real materials. The de facto ground truth that analytic models are fitted and compared against.

• supersedescorrects · extends
• classifiesspecializes · part-of
• substitutes forapproximates · alternative-to
• depends onrequires · validates

Colour is the family; a dashed line is the second member of it.

This node

• validatesis a test for BRDFmeasured ground truth to fit analytic models against

Referenced by

• requiresDisney Principled BRDF does not work without thisthe lobes were fitted against measured materials

References

• A Data-Driven Reflectance Model — Matusik, Pfister, Brand, McMillan — 2003 · link