Appearance
As material suppliers strive to create eye-catching product palettes, appearance attributes like color, gloss, and shimmer effects are becoming increasingly complex. Since appearance impacts overall color, it is crucial to account for these attributes in paints, plastics, metals, fabrics, and meshes at the design stage to successfully produce a visually accurate product. X-Rite’s solutions for appearance measurement capture and present digital materials in a physically precise way to streamline the product design process, reduce approval cycles, and accelerate speed to market.
Appearance Exchange Format (AxF™)
For Communicating Material Appearance Data
AxF is a vendor-neutral file format that digitally stores and shares a material’s appearance properties across PLM, CAD and rendering applications.
PANTORA
For Creating Virtual Materials and File Formats
The PANTORA desktop application enables users to capture, store, manage, view and edit virtual materials and digitally exchange them via a vendor neutral Appearance Exchange (AxF) file format.
Render Your Digital Fabrics to Perfection
Not all fabrics are created equal, and velvet is one of the trickiest fabrics to characterize digitally. Watch how Twinbru collaborated with X-Rite to capture the variability of velvet color and sheen to properly convey the look and realism of the material in a 3D environment.
The PANTORA Material Hub enables designers, 3D artists, material specifiers and marketers to easily create a centralized library of digital materials as well as store, manage and edit digital material files for realistic and consistent material renderings that improves product quality and accelerates time to market.
AxF™ is a standard way to digitally store and share a material’s appearance across PLM, CAD and rendering applications
