Comment by tzumaoli

The same Cornell group has done more research in this area. Here is one for capturing the microgeometry of metals https://www.cs.cornell.edu/Projects/metalappearance/ Here's another paper from a different group on capturing the microgeometry using a lot of LED lights https://svbrdf.github.io/publications/MicroLightStage/Micros...

But I agree there should be a lot more work in this area!!