CGI databases and resources

This document references a set of databases for computer graphics. If you use any of these database, cite the authors accordingly.

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Color science & Spectral data

Color Matching Functions and Conversions

• Large CMF database from the Colour & Vision Research Laboratory: http://www.cvrl.org/
• Color conversion math and matrices: http://www.brucelindbloom.com/

Illuminants

• CIE Illuminants and CMFs: https://law.resource.org/pub/us/cfr/ibr/003/cie.15.2004.tables.xls
• Daylight measured spectra:
  • Webpage (broken database links): http://cs.joensuu.fi/pages/mhk/ColorDB/color/database/database.htm
  • Database: http://cs.joensuu.fi/pub/color/spectra/daylight/
• LSPDD: Lamp Spectral Power Distribution Database: https://lspdd.org/

Reflectances

See section "Materials/Spectral Reflectance".

Hyperspectral images

See section "Images/Spectral Images".

Misc.

• Metamerism: RIT Metacow
  • Source: https://www.rit.edu/science/munsell-color-science-lab-educational-resources
  • Small TIFFs: http://www.rit-mcsl.org/MetaCow/SmTiffs.zip
  • Full resolution: ftp://ftp.cis.rit.edu/mcsl/MetaCow.tar.gz

Materials

BRDF / BTF

• MERL BRDF: https://www.merl.com/brdf/
• Dupuy and Jakob Material Database: https://rgl.epfl.ch/materials
• (On request) UTIA BRDF / BTF: http://btf.utia.cas.cz/
• BTFDBB: BTF Database Bonn and Measurement Lab: https://cg.cs.uni-bonn.de/btfdb/
• (On request) Volumetric Surface Texture Database: http://vision.ucsd.edu/kriegman-grp/research/vst/index.html
• Columba-Utrecht Reflectance and Texture Database: https://www.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/software/curet/

Textures

• Photex Photometric Image Database: https://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/texturelab/resources/databases/
• Pixar 128: https://renderman.pixar.com/pixar-one-twenty-eight
• Pixar 130: https://renderman.pixar.com/pixar-one-thirty
• Poly Haven: https://polyhaven.com/textures

Spectral Reflectance

• Spectral Macbeth colourchecker: https://www.babelcolor.com/colorchecker.htm
• Repository of numerous spectral measurements (links are broken on the HTML webpage): http://cs.joensuu.fi/pages/mhk/ColorDB/color/database/database.htm
  • Munsell colors matt (AOTF measured): http://cs.joensuu.fi/pub/color/spectra/maotf/
  • Munsell colors matt (spectrofotometer measured): http://cs.joensuu.fi/pub/color/spectra/mspec/
  • Munsell colors glossy (spectrofotometer measured): http://cs.joensuu.fi/pub/color/spectra/mglossy/
  • Natural colors: http://cs.joensuu.fi/pub/color/spectra/natural/
  • Forest colors: http://cs.joensuu.fi/pub/color/spectra/forest/
  • Paper spectra: http://cs.joensuu.fi/pub/color/spectra/paper/
  • Candy colors: http://cs.joensuu.fi/pub/color/spectra/candy/
  • Lumber spectra: http://cs.joensuu.fi/pub/color/spectra/lumber/
  • AGFA IT8.7/2 set: http://cs.joensuu.fi/pub/color/spectra/agfait872/
  • Daylight spectra: http://cs.joensuu.fi/pub/color/spectra/daylight/

See also Dupuy and Jakob Material Database in BRDF / BTF section

Bispectral Measurements

• RIT Fluorescent Database
  • Webpage: https://web.archive.org/web/20191018071813/https://www.rit.edu/cos/colorscience/re_sgonzalez.php
  • Database: www.rit-mcsl.org/StudentResearch/sgonzalez/Labsphere.zip

Misc.

• Index of refraction database: https://refractiveindex.info/

Geometry

3D Models

• McGuire Computer Graphics Archive: https://casual-effects.com/data/index.html
• Disney clouds: https://disneyanimation.com/resources/clouds/
• Disney Moana island: https://www.disneyanimation.com/resources/moana-island-scene/
• Poly Haven: https://polyhaven.com/models
• Intel Sponza Scene & addons: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/topic-technology/graphics-research/samples.html

3D Scans

• The Stanford 3D Scanning Repository: https://graphics.stanford.edu/data/3Dscanrep/
• 3D scans: https://threedscans.com/
• Museum der Universität Tübingen artifacts: https://www.myminifactory.com/users/unimuseumt

Misc.

• 3D Machine learning resources and links: https://github.com/timzhang642/3D-Machine-Learning#datasets

Images

Image formats

RGB Images

• OpenEXR images: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr-images

Spectral Images

• BGU ICVL Hyperspectral Database: http://icvl.cs.bgu.ac.il/hyperspectral/
• The Cornell Box: https://www.graphics.cornell.edu/online/box/box_tiff.zip
• Spectral EXR: https://jcgt.org/published/0010/03/01/sample-images.zip
• ENVI (BGU ICVL Hyperspectral Database): http://icvl.cs.bgu.ac.il/hyperspectral/
• CAVE Multispectral Image Database: https://www.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/databases/multispectral/

Environment Maps

• P.Debevec Light probes:
  • https://www.pauldebevec.com/Probes/
  • https://vgl.ict.usc.edu/Data/HighResProbes/
• Poly Haven: https://polyhaven.com/hdris

Misc.

• The Cornell Box website: http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/online/box/data.html