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Shakespeare's Lighting Project ("Caress")

Rob Shakespeare of the Theatre and Drama Department is looking to develop tools to allow more direct, higher-level, and intuitive control over lighting parameters.

Categories: Interface Design, Photorealistic rendering
Participants: * Rob Shakespeare - Theatre and Drama, TCVC (Theatre Computer Visualization Center)
* Eric Wernert - CICA
Dates: Fall 1996 - ongoing
Resources: * Radiance Synthetic Imaging Software by Greg Ward, LBL
* custom Open Inventor software

Productions

As a first test at interfacing Open Inventor and Radiance, a 3D version of the xshowtrace program was created. When the user clicks on any pixel in the Radiance image (below left), the ray information from the Radiance rtrace program is piped to an Inventor process for rendering (below right).

Another program allows the user to interactively adjust viewing and lighting parameters in a 3D Inventor window (below left), and then pass those parameters to Radiance for photorealistic rendering (below right).

Maintained by: ewernert@cica.indiana.edu
Last modified: 3/12/97