TR95-18
Exploring Lighting Spaces
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- "Exploring Lighting Spaces", Tech. Rep. TR95-18, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, December 1995.BibTeX TR95-18 PDF
- @techreport{MERL_TR95-18,
- author = {Tom Kang, Josh Seims, Stuart Shieber},
- title = {Exploring Lighting Spaces},
- institution = {MERL - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories},
- address = {Cambridge, MA 02139},
- number = {TR95-18},
- month = dec,
- year = 1995,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR95-18/}
- }
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- "Exploring Lighting Spaces", Tech. Rep. TR95-18, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, December 1995.
Abstract:
We present a simple system for interactively specifying lighting parameters, including position, for high-quality image synthesis. Unlike inverse approaches to the lighting-design problem, we do not require the user to indicate a priori the desired illuminative characteristics of an image. In our approach the computer proposes, culls, and organizes a set of candidate lights automatically, using an elementary measure of image similarity as the basis for both culling and organization. The user then browses the set of candidate-light images, selects which lights to include, and combines them as desired. This work is a particular instance of a general strategy --- sampling a design space broadly and intelligently and organizing the results for rapid browsing by the user --- that may be applicable to many other design problems in computer graphics.