Skip to main content
  • Jobs/Career
  • Events
  • Press
  • Publications
  • Contact
  • Deutsch
  • English
  • Institute
    Institute
    • About Us
      • Contact Persons
      • Advisory Board
      • Locations
        • Darmstadt
        • Rostock
        • Kiel
      • Data & Facts
    • Mission & Vision
      • Mission
      • Vision - Our lead topics
        • Digitized Work
        • Smart City
        • Individual Health
        • Visual Computing as a Service
    • Cooperations within Fraunhofer
      • Fraunhofer Austria / Fraunhofer Singapore
        • Graz
        • Singapore
      • Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
      • ICT Group
      • Alliances
      • External networks
    • Our spin-offs
  • Competences
    Competences
    • Research Lines
      • Computer Graphics (CG)
      • Computer Vision (CV)
      • Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI)
      • (Interactive) Simulation (SIM)
      • Modeling (MOD)
    • Technologies
      • 3D Printing
      • 3D Scanning
      • Big Data
      • Biometrics
      • Cloud
      • Digital Assistance
      • Driving Assistance
      • Geometry Processing
      • Information Visualization
      • Interactive Simulation
      • Material Appearance
      • Medical Imaging
      • Object Tracking
      • Realtime Visualization
      • Sensors
      • Smart Living
      • Spatial Information Management
      • Underwater Vision
      • Virtual & Augmented Reality
      • Visual Analytics
  • Trends
  • Services
  • Reference Projects
  • More
    • Institute
      Institute
      • About Us
        • Contact Persons
        • Advisory Board
        • Locations
          • Darmstadt
          • Rostock
          • Kiel
        • Data & Facts
      • Mission & Vision
        • Mission
        • Vision - Our lead topics
          • Digitized Work
          • Smart City
          • Individual Health
          • Visual Computing as a Service
      • Cooperations within Fraunhofer
        • Fraunhofer Austria / Fraunhofer Singapore
          • Graz
          • Singapore
        • Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
        • ICT Group
        • Alliances
        • External networks
      • Our spin-offs
    • Competences
      Competences
      • Research Lines
        • Computer Graphics (CG)
        • Computer Vision (CV)
        • Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI)
        • (Interactive) Simulation (SIM)
        • Modeling (MOD)
      • Technologies
        • 3D Printing
        • 3D Scanning
        • Big Data
        • Biometrics
        • Cloud
        • Digital Assistance
        • Driving Assistance
        • Geometry Processing
        • Information Visualization
        • Interactive Simulation
        • Material Appearance
        • Medical Imaging
        • Object Tracking
        • Realtime Visualization
        • Sensors
        • Smart Living
        • Spatial Information Management
        • Underwater Vision
        • Virtual & Augmented Reality
        • Visual Analytics
    • Trends
    • Services
    • Reference Projects
    • Jobs/Career
    • Events
    • Press
    • Publications
    • Contact
Fraunhofer IGD
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD

You are here

  1. Home
  2. . Competences
  3. . Technologies
  4. . Material Appearance

Material Appearance

3D Reproduction of Visual Material Properties

3D printers are inherently limited in their ability to flawlessly reproduce the physical and visual material properties of a template. If the reproduction of the template is adjusted in such a way that physical flaws are minimized, this usually results in substantial perceptual errors due to the partly non-monotonous processing of complex physical signals by the human visual system.

For this reason, the 3D Printing Technology department of Fraunhofer IGD aims at minimizing the perceptual error between the template and the 3D print reproduction. This requires empirical modeling of the human visual system, for which Fraunhofer IGD conducts extensive psychophysical experiments relating to color, brightness, and translucency perception. Additionally, Fraunhofer IGD measures visual material properties, especially the bidirectional reflection and the light transport within a material. This information serves as input for the empirical perception models, which are then integrated in Cuttlefish in order to relocate errors to areas outside the range of human sensitivity.

  • www.cuttlefish.de

Reference projects

  • CultLab3D
  • Final inspection in the series production of airbag generators
  • futureAM – Next Generation Additive Manufacturing
  • Missing Link
  • VI:MAR:CON - The Virtual Maritime Interior Configurator

Contact

Prof. Dr. Philipp Urban

3D Printing Technology
Fraunhoferstr. 5
64283 Darmstadt
Phone +49 6151 155-250
Fax +49 6151 155-248
  • philipp [dot] urban [at] igd [dot] fraunhofer [dot] de (send mail)

Teilen

  • tweet
  • teilen
  • teilen
  • teilen

Quick links

  • Events

Follow us

© 2000-2021 Fraunhofer IGD
  • Data Protection Policy
  • Quality Management
  • Imprint