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The lightspeed automatic interactive lighting preview system

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Jonathan Ragan-Kelley,

Charlie Kilpatrick,

Brian W. Smith,

Christophe Hery,

Frédo DurandAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Volume 26, Issue 3

Pages 25 - es

https://doi.org/10.1145/1276377.1276409

Published: 29 July 2007 Publication History

Abstract

We present an automated approach for high-quality preview of feature-film rendering during lighting design. Similar to previous work, we use a deep-framebuffer shaded on the GPU to achieve interactive performance. Our first contribution is to generate the deep-framebuffer and corresponding shaders automatically through data-flow analysis and compilation of the original scene. Cache compression reduces automatically-generated deep-framebuffers to reasonable size for complex production scenes and shaders. We also propose a new structure, the indirect framebuffer, that decouples shading samples from final pixels and allows a deep-framebuffer to handle antialiasing, motion blur and transparency efficiently. Progressive refinement enables fast feedback at coarser resolution. We demonstrate our approach in real-world production.

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The lightspeed automatic interactive lighting preview system
1. Computing methodologies
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ACM Transactions on Graphics Volume 26, Issue 3

July 2007

976 pages

ISSN:0730-0301

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DOI:10.1145/1276377

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