Photorealistic Rendering with V-ray. Rackwitz & Sterner

[Tong]

Photorealistic Rendering with V-ray. Anja Rackwitz and Markus Sterner

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It`s not a book, it`s research ;-) of students I guess, but whats better than good investigation in process?
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[Tong]

TABLEOFCONTENTS

Acknowledgements.3

1 Introduction.7

1.1 Hypothesis.7
1.2 Anticipatedproblems.7
1.3 Expectedresults.8
1.4 Limitations.8
1.5 Method.8
1.5.1 Methodofchoice.8
1.5.2 Methoddescription.9
1.6 Questionsatissue.9
1.7 Purposeoftheresearch.9
1.8 Targetgroup.9
1.9 Earlierresearchonthesubject.9
1.10 Dispositionofthepaper.10
1.11 Typographicalconventions.10

2 Theoreticalframework.11

2.1 ColorandLight–RealisminReality.11
2.1.1 TheNatureofRealLight.11
2.1.2 Howdoescoloremitfromobjects?.12
2.1.3 Colormodels–strivingforrealism.13
2.1.4 Colorprofiles–sRGBvs.AdobeRGB.14
2.1.5 Colortemperature.15
2.2 Rendering–VirtualRealism.16
2.2.1 TheVrayRenderer.16
2.2.2 GlobalIllumination.16
2.2.3 AntiAliasingFilters.18
2.2.4 BumpMapping.20
2.2.5 DisplacementMapping.20
2.2.6 Highdynamicrangeimaging.20

3 VisualResponse.22

3.1 Photographyasastartingpoint.22
3.1.1 Realism.22
3.1.2 Makingthepicturealive–threemainforces.26
3.2 PerceptionPsychology.30
3.2.1 RelativeBrightness.30
3.2.2 Colorinterpretation.30
3.2.3 Shapesandforms.31

4 Process.33

4.1 StudyExcursionDescription.33
4.2 Choosingaroom.33
4.3 ImageAnalysis.34
4.3.1 Analyzingtheoriginalimage.34
4.3.2 Thingstochangeinthe3Dscene(Figure22).37
4.3.3 PostproductioninPhotoshop.40
4.4 Experiment.42
Results.43
4.5 Finalimage.43
4.5.1 Thelittlethings.44
4.5.2 Flaws.44

5 Discussion.45

5.1 UsefulmeanswhencreatingphotorealisticCGI.45
5.2 Pro&Contraphotography.45
5.3 Pro&Contra3D.46
5.4 Whatcouldhavebeenmadebetter,andhow?.47
5.4.1 Theimage.47
5.5 Furtherresearchonthetopic.47

6 Conclusion.48

7 References.49

7.1 Persons.50
7.2 Websites.50
7.3 Reports.50
7.4 Books.51
7.5 Tableoffigures.52

[maya69]

really great

[stefan]

cool thanks maya69
:-)
cheers
stefan

[kraphik]

nice. Thanks for academic reading.

[Cian]

Nice one Tong.
That was a very interesting read.


Cian.

[Shordy]

many thanks.
Great Work! :shock:

[georgess]

I know it's an old thread but the download link doesn't seem to open.

[Tong]

http://hig.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:119709/FULLTEXT01

[Carl]

Thanks Tong!