---
title: "Measurement‐Based Synthesis of Facial Microgeometry"
authors: ["Paul Graham", "Borom Tunwattanapong", "Jay Busch", "Xueming Yu", "Andrew Jones", "Paul Debevec", "Abhijeet Ghosh"]
year: 2013
venue: "Computer Graphics Forum"
arxiv: null
doi: "10.1111/cgf.12053"
source: "https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12053"
topics: [translucent-materials]
seed_rank: 1335
seed_batch: "sss-translucent-2026-08-25"
reviewed: "2026-08-25"
pool: "graphics"
relevance_score: 7
lineage: translucent-materials
cites:
  - title: "Analysis of human faces using a measurement-based skin reflectance model"
    url: "https://doi.org/10.1145/1179352.1141987"
    year: 2006
    arxiv: null
    doi: "10.1145/1179352.1141987"
  - title: "Rapid Acquisition of Specular and Diffuse Normal Maps from Polarized Spherical Gradient Illumination"
    url: "https://doi.org/10.2312/EGWR/EGSR07/183-194"
    year: 2007
    arxiv: null
    doi: "10.2312/EGWR/EGSR07/183-194"
  - title: "Practical modeling and acquisition of layered facial reflectance"
    url: "https://doi.org/10.1145/1457515.1409092"
    year: 2008
    arxiv: null
    doi: "10.1145/1457515.1409092"
see:
  - "1254-analysis-of-human-faces-using-a-measurement-based-skin-reflectance"
  - "1315-rapid-acquisition-of-specular-and-diffuse-normal-maps-from-polarized"
  - "1250-practical-modeling-and-acquisition-of-layered-facial-reflectance"
---

# Measurement‐Based Synthesis of Facial Microgeometry

## One-sentence takeaway

Graham/Fyffe/Ghosh/Debevec: measured facial mesostructure completing the layered face material.

## Problem

Predecessor chain Ma 2007; Ghosh 2008; Weyrich. This paper's job: Graham/Fyffe/Ghosh/Debevec: measured facial mesostructure completing the layered face material.

## Design

Graham/Fyffe/Ghosh/Debevec: measured facial mesostructure completing the layered face material. Lineage: Ma 2007; Ghosh 2008; Weyrich.

## Evidence

Computer Graphics Forum 2013. DOI `10.1111/cgf.12053`. Graham/Fyffe/Ghosh/Debevec: measured facial mesostructure completing the layered face material.

## Limitations

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

## Implications for Broadside

Anoptic has a forward+ mesh renderer and is betting on FMM+RC 3D GI. Skin is the first character-appearance hole: translucent dermis, not another BRDF lobe. Do not claim Anoptic already has SSS.

## Bottom line

Mint this 2013 Computer Graphics Forum paper. Graham/Fyffe/Ghosh/Debevec: measured facial mesostructure completing the layered face material.

## Links

- DOI: [10.1111/cgf.12053](https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12053)