Overview
The aim of this research is to investigate a spatial extension to the common image based lighting (IBL) process suitable for practical use in areas such as visual effects, animation and gaming.
SIGGRAPH 2007
Poster Presentation
Sails Pavilion, San Diego Convention Center
Monday, 6 August 12:15 - 1:15 pm
Wednesday, 8 August 12:15 - 1:15 pm
Note that the poster contains additional findings not outlined in the abstract
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Results
These examples show the result of Spatial Image Based Lighting in a hallway environment. Two light fields were captured, a daytime (no artificial light) and a night time (combination of incandescent and fluorescent light).
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Related Work
- Spatially Variant Real World Light for Computer Graphics
- A Median Cut Algorithm for Light Probe Sampling
- Capturing and Rendering with Incident Light Fields
- Rendering Synthetic Objects into Real Scenes
Acknowledgements
All images and animations rendered with V-Ray.
Bunny, dragon and happy Buddha courtesy of The Stanford 3D Scanning Repository.
Alfred character courtesy of Rodri Torres and animated by Nick Lines and Ken Steel.
Animations compressed with H.264 using SUPER.