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inks are beginning to find their way into these devices as they have a l<strong>on</strong>gevity<br />

of 80-100 years or more. Other everyday colored materials c<strong>on</strong>tain pigments, such<br />

as plastics <strong>and</strong> n<strong>on</strong>-artists’ paints. As such, these materials are also susceptible<br />

to natural deteriorati<strong>on</strong>, such as the case with many architectural materials. In<br />

computer graphics, realistic synthetic material aging is also a increasingly popular<br />

research area, enhancing the visual complexity of simulated images.<br />

There are many possible future research areas related to our work. Most im-<br />

portantly, to fully underst<strong>and</strong> the effects of aging, many more <strong>time</strong>-dependent<br />

measurements are needed. Our research <strong>on</strong>ly accounts for a very small porti<strong>on</strong><br />

of the life of a painting, which is expected to last indefinitely (at least a hundred<br />

years). While this type of study is perhaps impossibly <strong>time</strong>-expensive, artificial<br />

aging accelerators seem to provide a feasible way to simulate some effects. Yet,<br />

since natural decay is more than just electromagnetic radiati<strong>on</strong>, a complete system<br />

would need to account for other atmospheric effects as well. Another very impor-<br />

tant factor in the visual appearance of paint is the spectral reflectance comp<strong>on</strong>ent.<br />

Not all binding <strong>media</strong> are completely diffuse materials, as some maintain a charac-<br />

teristic gloss to the surface. This comp<strong>on</strong>ent is also <strong>time</strong>-dependent, as the specular<br />

highlight typically aides in <strong>on</strong>e’s percepti<strong>on</strong> of a liquid’s wetness. Therefore, a full<br />

underst<strong>and</strong>ing of the appearance of <str<strong>on</strong>g>pigmented</str<strong>on</strong>g> materials over <strong>time</strong> would require a<br />

complete temporally-varying BRDF. Further, while we have purposefully excluded<br />

any additives to our paint, it would be fascinating to study how different materials<br />

affect the optical properties of a <str<strong>on</strong>g>pigmented</str<strong>on</strong>g> colorant.<br />

Due to space c<strong>on</strong>siderati<strong>on</strong>s, we have presented <strong>on</strong>ly a small fracti<strong>on</strong> of the<br />

measurements in our study. In this setting, it was impractical to include analysis<br />

198<br />

<strong>on</strong> all of the 1008 <strong>time</strong> dependent reflectance spectra (21 <str<strong>on</strong>g>pigmented</str<strong>on</strong>g> mixtures x 8

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