jb

decouple imagery from lighting/environment

nice.
a siggraph paper on capturing all lighting directions 24 times/sec so that one can competely re-light real objects in post. in addition, it grabs an image that can be used as an alpha for complete re-integration into a new environment. animation of the lighting/environment is also possible. and, from the matrix of all lighting directions, they calculate a normal map making it possible to change the surface appearance.

Performance Relighting and Reflectance Transformation with Time-Multiplexed Illumination

video. [101mb divx]

Posted by jb at September 2, 2005 05:21 PM