A significant problem in the automatic design of 3D
graphics is the configuration of the lighting for a
scene. The number of lights included, and the
properties of these lights, has an enormous impact on
what a viewer can judge about the content, properties
and other aesthetic qualities of a scene. Non-expert
users encounter a number of difficulties in selecting
the appropriate lighting parameters, as the process
requires both a subtle technical and aesthetic
understanding of lighting in computer graphics.
In this book, an intuitive approach to lighting
design, lighting-by-example, is proposed and
extensively explored in forms that exploit both the
perception-based lighting framework and a new wavelet
formulation. User studies are conducted both to
configure the perception-based lighting objective
function and to evaluate the performance of the
proposed lighting design approaches. Finally, an
approach to designing interactive interface for the
lighting design process that incorporates both the
ideal lighting and lighting-by-example approaches is
presented.
graphics is the configuration of the lighting for a
scene. The number of lights included, and the
properties of these lights, has an enormous impact on
what a viewer can judge about the content, properties
and other aesthetic qualities of a scene. Non-expert
users encounter a number of difficulties in selecting
the appropriate lighting parameters, as the process
requires both a subtle technical and aesthetic
understanding of lighting in computer graphics.
In this book, an intuitive approach to lighting
design, lighting-by-example, is proposed and
extensively explored in forms that exploit both the
perception-based lighting framework and a new wavelet
formulation. User studies are conducted both to
configure the perception-based lighting objective
function and to evaluate the performance of the
proposed lighting design approaches. Finally, an
approach to designing interactive interface for the
lighting design process that incorporates both the
ideal lighting and lighting-by-example approaches is
presented.