This master thesis will last 6 months, and starts in Feb. 2023.
The student will be working at INRIA Rhone-Alpes, near Grenoble, France. Advisor: Cyril Soler.
The work takes place in collaboration with Owens Corning (Chambery). Depending on results during the Master II thesis, the work may continue on a fully funded CIFFRE PhD starting from Sept. 2023. A successful master II candidate will be considered first, for this thesis.This data may be either generated using procedural modeling, or obtained from CT scans provided by Owen's Corning. At the time of writing this, there is no such CT scans available, so the candidate will need to generate his own testing data.
The candidate will use an existing pathtracer that already handles loading of complex geometry, intersections, etc. The data from the path tracer will however need to be interpreted/converted into a proper reflectance function.
Composite materials come with various physical parameters: refractive index of the different components, orient and directional homogeneity of the fibers, thickness of layers, etc. The goal of this step is to figure out which of these parameters have a conclusive influence on the final appearance of the material.
In the master thesis, this step mostly serves illustrative purposes. In the PhD thesis that will follow, the generation of predictive rendering will be one of the goals.
It is essential to contact me and come at INRIA (Montbonnot) to discuss the subject.