Exploratory Stage Lighting Design using Visual Objectives. (7th June 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Exploratory Stage Lighting Design using Visual Objectives. (7th June 2019)
- Main Title:
- Exploratory Stage Lighting Design using Visual Objectives
- Authors:
- Shimizu, Evan
Paris, Sylvain
Fisher, Matt
Yumer, Ersin
Fatahalian, Kayvon - Abstract:
- Abstract: Lighting is a critical element of theater. A lighting designer is responsible for drawing the audience's attention to a specific part of the stage, setting time of day, creating a mood, and conveying emotions. Designers often begin the lighting design process by collecting reference visual imagery that captures different aspects of their artistic intent. Then, they experiment with various lighting options to determine which ideas work best on stage. However, modern stages contain tens to hundreds of lights, and setting each light source's parameters individually to realize an idea is both tedious and requires expert skill. In this paper, we describe an exploratory lighting design tool based on feedback from professional designers. The system extracts abstract visual objectives from reference imagery and applies them to target regions of the stage. Our system can rapidly generate plausible design candidates that embody the visual objectives through a Gibbs sampling method, and present them as a design gallery for rapid exploration and iterative refinement. We demonstrate that the resulting system allows lighting designers of all skill levels to quickly create and communicate complex designs, even for scenes containing many color‐changing lights.
- Is Part Of:
- Computer graphics forum. Volume 38:Number 2(2019)
- Journal:
- Computer graphics forum
- Issue:
- Volume 38:Number 2(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 38, Issue 2 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 38
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0038-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 417
- Page End:
- 429
- Publication Date:
- 2019-06-07
- Subjects:
- CCS Concepts -- Computing methodologies → Graphics systems and interfaces -- Applied computing → Performing arts -- lighting design -- lighting -- stage lighting -- exploratory design -- visual objectives
Computer graphics -- Periodicals
006.605 - Journal URLs:
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8659.1982.tb00001.x/abstract ↗
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http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/servlet/useragent?func=showIssues&code=cgf ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1111/cgf.13648 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0167-7055
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- Legaldeposit
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