Plugins

PURPOSE: Integrate research innovations directly inside existing software. Explore new usages for entertainment or visualization purposes. FEATURES: on-the-fly curvature computation for shading control or visualization, non-photorealistic shading. Plugin: Radiance scaling for MeshLabDevelopper: Romain VergneDownloads: Win32 executable, or directly from Meshlab websiteLicensing: GNU General Public License Technique: Ray-traced Curvature for MODODevelopers: Bastien Perpère, Gael Guennebaud, Pascal Barla, Gregory … Read more

Libraries

PURPOSE: Make research innovations available as early as possible and easy to integrate in other pipelines. FEATURES: Multi-scale image and shape analysis, vector graphics, material fitting, spectral rendering. Website: http://patate.gforge.inria.fr/Developers: Nicolas Mellado, Gautier Ciaudo, Simon Boyé, Gael Guennebaud, Pascal Barla.Licensing: Mozilla Public License v2 Website: http://alta.gforge.inria.fr/Developpers: Laurent Belcour, Ludovic Courtès, Pascal Barla, Romain PacanowskiLicensing: Mozilla Public … Read more

Lighting Design

MOTIVATION: Introduce tools that guide the design of lighting environments, with the goal of conveying shape, material or space. INSPIRATION: The book “Lighting: Science and Magic”, by Hunter and Fuqua; Bousseau’s paper on lighting optimization. Effects of light map orientation and shape on the visual perception of canonical materialsFan Zhang; Huib de Ridder; Pascal Barla; Sylvia PontJournal of Vision 2020, … Read more