6.1. Basic Image-Based Lighting
6.1.1. Capturing light
The first step of image-based lighting is to obtain a measurement of real-world illumination, called a light probe image in [7]. Several such images are available in the Light Probe Image Gallery at http://www.debevec.org/Probes/. The web site includes the kitchen environment used to render the microscope as well as lighting captured in various other interior and outdoor environments. A few of these environments are shown in Figure 6.2.
Figure 6.2. Several light probe images from the Light Probe Image Gallery at http://www.debevec.org/Probes. The light is from (a) a residential kitchen, (b) the eucalyptus grove at UC Berkeley, (c) the Uffizi gallery in Florence, Italy, and (d) Grace Cathedral ...
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