Tea Vui Huang's Instant EXR mobile phone application lets you create a High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) in the form of ILM's (Industrial Light & Magic, a division of Lucas Digital Ltd. LLC) OpenEXR latitude-longitude environment map from a sequence of mobile phone photos.
The process takes about 20 seconds for each 1024x512 EXR. The OpenEXR files it creates can be imported directly into SOFTIMAGE|XSI & Autodesk Maya to render photo-realistic 3D scenes and animation. The Instant EXR generated environment maps can be used with Final Gather or Global Illumination to perform Image-Based Lighting (IBL). The fully-functional application and sample EXR can be downloaded from the website above.
I do have one question tho, and please tell me if I'm wrong, but in order for an image to qualify as a true HDR image, doesn't it need to be floating point throughout its lifecycle?
Starting from a standard .jpeg defeats the HDR purpose does it not?
I mean, a standard .jpeg does not natively carry enough information for the super-brights and super-blacks that a floating point image does correct?
Again, please tell me if I'm wrong
Cool app tho!
Israel "Izzy" Long
Motion and Title Design for Broadcast-Film-DS izzylong.com
I think that you can have a series of Jpegs, but they need to be takes at various f stop values to get the right levels (super black to super white), then again I might be wrong though!
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