iCheat: A representation for artistic control of indirect cinematic lighting

    Authors

    J. Obert; J. Krivanek; F. Pellacini; D. Sykora;S. Pattanaik

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Comput. Graph. Forum

    Keywords

    Computer Science, Software Engineering

    Abstract

    Thanks to an increase in rendering efficiency, indirect illumination has recently, begun to be integrated in cinematic lighting design, an application where physical accuracy is less important than careful control of scene appearance. This paper presents a comprehensive, efficient, and intuitive representation for artistic control of indirect illumination. We encode user's adjustments to indirect lighting as scale and offset coefficients of the transfer operator. We take advantage of the nature of indirect illumination and of the edits themselves to efficiently sample and compress them. A major benefit of this sampled representation, compared to encoding adjustments as procedural shaders, is the renderer-independence. This allowed us to easily implement several tools to produce our final images: an interactive relighting engine to view adjustments, a painting interface to define them, and a final renderer to render high quality results. We demonstrate edits to scenes with diffuse and glossy surfaces and animation.

    Journal Title

    Computer Graphics Forum

    Volume

    27

    Issue/Number

    4

    Publication Date

    1-1-2008

    Document Type

    Article; Proceedings Paper

    Language

    English

    First Page

    1217

    Last Page

    1223

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000258223600019

    ISSN

    0167-7055

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