Abstract:
Simulation of 3D graphics of silk fabric whose shininess is an essential characteristic needs a specific model of Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) as shader. In this research, we studied reflection of plain weave silk fabric and developed the specific model for silk fabric reflection by measuring its BRDFs with a goniospectrophotometer. We observed that the reflection characteristic of silk fabric has mixed reflection which includes special reflection characteristics such as off-specular reflection and retro-reflection. Then we compared between measured BRDFs and predicted BRDFs which were calculated from existing models - Phong model, Ward model, Ward-Duer model, Blinn-Phong, Cook-Torrance model and Oren-Nayar model