---
title: "Building volumetric appearance models of fabric using micro CT imaging"
authors: ["Shuang Zhao", "Wenzel Jakob", "Steve Marschner", "Kavita Bala"]
year: 2011
venue: "SIGGRAPH"
arxiv: null
doi: "10.1145/1964921.1964939"
source: "https://doi.org/10.1145/1964921.1964939"
topics: [translucent-materials]
seed_rank: 1297
seed_batch: "sss-translucent-2026-08-25"
reviewed: "2026-08-25"
pool: "graphics"
relevance_score: 8
lineage: translucent-materials
cites:
  - title: "Radiative Transfer"
    url: "https://archive.org/details/radiativetransfe0000chan"
    year: 1950
    arxiv: null
    doi: null
  - title: "A Radiative Transfer Framework for Rendering Materials with Anisotropic Structure"
    url: "https://doi.org/10.1145/1778765.1778790"
    year: 2010
    arxiv: null
    doi: "10.1145/1778765.1778790"
see:
  - "1252-radiative-transfer"
  - "1299-a-radiative-transfer-framework-for-rendering-materials-with"
---

# Building volumetric appearance models of fabric using micro CT imaging

## One-sentence takeaway

Zhao/Jakob/Hasan/Bala: volumetric fabric as a translucent/scattering *material* from micro-CT.

## Problem

Predecessor chain Jakob anisotropic RTE 2010; microflake; cloth BRDFs. This paper's job: Zhao/Jakob/Hasan/Bala: volumetric fabric as a translucent/scattering *material* from micro-CT.

## Design

Zhao/Jakob/Hasan/Bala: volumetric fabric as a translucent/scattering *material* from micro-CT. Lineage: Jakob anisotropic RTE 2010; microflake; cloth BRDFs.

## Evidence

SIGGRAPH 2011. DOI `10.1145/1964921.1964939`. Zhao/Jakob/Hasan/Bala: volumetric fabric as a translucent/scattering *material* from micro-CT.

## Limitations

Acquisition or fabrication paper, not an integrator. Assumes a forward SSS model.

## Implications for Broadside

Capture and perception papers say which parameters to store, not how Anoptic evaluates them. The renderer still lacks an SSS operator. Do not claim they already have SSS.

## Bottom line

Mint this 2011 SIGGRAPH paper. Zhao/Jakob/Hasan/Bala: volumetric fabric as a translucent/scattering *material* from micro-CT.

## Links

- DOI: [10.1145/1964921.1964939](https://doi.org/10.1145/1964921.1964939)