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16 May 2024 04:33:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Using SpectralDB.com's SPDs in Ive's Spectral Render System  
From: And
Date: 17 Aug 2023 00:20:00
Message: <web.64dd9f823b44dc5e48374b67aa81652d@news.povray.org>
"BayashiPascal" <inf### [at] baillehachepascaldev> wrote:
> Thanks to the recent post by Cousin Ricky I came to know about Ive's Spectral
> Render System. It's really clever indeed, but it lacks input data: SPDs are not
> easy to obtain. Ive addresses the problem by providing macros to create new SPDs
> from existing ones, and Cousin Ricky by providing macros to create new SPDs from
> RGB values. But there also exists databases of accurate SPDs for real world
> materials. spectraldb.com is a very large one of them (1294 measurements at the
> time of writing). It happens I've made a tool to edit SPDs for my own purpose,
> which can exploit that database, and I realised it would be straightforward to
> adapt it to easily use spectraldb.com's SPDs in Ive's Spectral Render System.
> You'll find the app here:
>
> https://baillehachepascal.dev/Tools/ReflectanceEditor/index.html
>
> and explanations in the article linked in the footer of the app. In short, the
> app lets you select one of the SPDs available in spectraldb, and has a
> functionality to convert the data into the format expected by Ive's tool, ready
> to copy-paste.
>
> Hoping it will be useful to some of new, questions and comments are welcome.
>
> Pascal

Wow, the website (spectraldb.com) offers many good reference.

Your website is interesting, too.


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