The phrase "material appearance" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe the physical or tangible aspect of something. Example: "The material appearance of the new furniture gave the room a modern and elegant feel."
Human beings are remarkably good at making subtle distinctions in material appearance (e.g., silk vs. cotton, laminate vs. granite).
Model designers started to look more closely to material appearance attributes in order to obtain believable results.
However, the application of the diffusion theory in the modeling of material appearance has evolved beyond these models.
It covers all stages of a new product development including acquisition, processing and modeling of reflectance data, interactive rendering and evaluation of material appearance, and manufacturing operations.
The cost of production per unit area of land and per ton is usually less for processing crops than for the same crops grown for market because raw material appearance is not a major quality factor in processing.
We explain the system design, illustrate its capabilities, describe experiments we conducted to validate its fidelity, and discuss potential applications in material appearance research and computer-aided appearance design.
This attainment requires looking beyond material appearances to a spiritual reality that orthodox Christianity associates with heaven but that Christian Science considers to be a demonstrable fact.
Van Eyck's artistic vision, static and formal though it is, also has maintained its power, imbuing everything he painted with a spiritual presence, for all his unbridled love of material appearances.
In a press conference in Hamburg on 16 September 2001, Stockhausen was asked by a journalist whether the characters in Licht were for him "merely some figures out of a common cultural history" or rather "material appearances".
The spectral sensitivity σS depends on the materials appearance while the spatial sensitivity σP depends on the size of tested image.
Under another provision of the 1978 Agreement, the NYPL and the City also each separately promised "to protect and preserve the historical integrity of features, materials, appearance, workmanship and environment" of the Central Library -- a promise that "they would break if the stacks were to be removed," according to Michael Hiller of Weiss & Hiller, the firm representing the Coalition.
