Directing the Photography: Combining Cinematic Rules, Indirect Light Controls and Lighting‐by‐Example

Abstract

Figure 1: The 3-point-lighting technique (on the left) is a classical cinematic rule to place lights around a subject. Playing with the lights position, size, and flux considerably impacts the aesthetics and atmosphere of a scene (in the middle). We propose a technique that automatically computes the parameters of a 3-point-lighting setup made of area lights, given the reference image in the middle, to generate the image on the right in a virtual environment.

Targeting Shape and Material in Lighting Design

“…Computer‐aided lighting design Many automatic solutions find optimal light parameters to satisfy user requirements for shape depiction [SL01; LHV06; WK13; WVBT16], material depiction [SL01], and aesthetics [PBMF07; LGCB14; GLCC18]. However, these solutions focus on a few light sources.…”