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Filmic Tonemapping and Color In Games

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A presentation at Electronic Arts in 2006 on Filmic Tonemapping, a technique from film that became very applicable to games with the addition of support for HDR lighting and rendering in graphics cards.

Articles about the technique or games that have used the technique

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Multipass Rendering in mental ray for “The Matrix” sequels

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The Siggraph 2003 presentation “Multipass Rendering in mental ray for “The Matrix” sequels”, an early deep frame buffer approach to rendering and compositing large datasets, are online here:

Authors:

Haarm-Pieter Duiker, ESC Entertainment Thomas Driemeyer, mental images

 

Abstract:
Rendering resources are by definition constrained and yet the task of rendering many objects at high quality is frequently encountered in the effects industry. Breaking up scenes into renderable pieces, or passes, is a common approach to rendering large scenes. To achieve the quantity of photo-real effects in frame that were required by the scripts of The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, mental images and ESC Entertainment developed a system for rendering and automatically compositing many passes. The system we developed has the key advantage that it takes as its compositing primitive not the pixel but the sample.

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Lighting Reconstruction for “The Matrix” sequels

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The Siggraph 2003 presentation on the ESC Lighting Reconstruction Toolkit, an Image-Based Lighting approach used on The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions are online here.

Authors:

Haarm-Pieter Duiker, ESC Entertainment

Abstract:
The demands of photo-realism required of the effects for The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions led us to create a system for directly and accurately reconstructing real world lighting environments. The Lighting Reconstruction Toolkit builds on research in the area of Image-based Lighting and extends current techniques to enable the reconstruction of lighting that more closely matches the real world.

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