CShake wrote:
> Here's a set of macros that I've been working on for a while, and 
> finally feel like I can submit. It effectively allows you to place 
> standard theatrical instruments in your scene, and attach various 
> accessories (colors, template patterns, etc).
> I tried to make everything in here as realistic as possible, in terms of 
> photometric data, and left a lot of room for modification and expansion. 
> It uses LightSysIV (and CIE.inc) from Jaime for color and fading 
> calculations.
> 
> Color filters (Gels in the technical lingo) were modeled by taking the 
> transmission spectra for each color in spline form and passing it 
> through CIE to create colors as accurately as possible. The lamps 
> themselves use the rated blackbody temperatures of the real lamps, so 
> anything made in this should look nearly identical to what it looks like 
> in person, within gamma and monitor calibration tolerances.
> 
> The zip file contains a folder that contains the main include file, a 
> sample proscenium theatre space to test lights in, a wooden stick figure 
> to test with, transmission spectrum data for 3 major manufacturers of 
> gels, a fairly detailed readme with usage instructions, and a few demo 
> scenes to try.
> 
> Let me know what you think!
> 
> cshake

Looks promising and I'm glad someone could make some use of my old CIE 
include file. Which reminds of the lack of a *real* documentation for it 
and I guess the purpose and usage of CIE.inc is quite difficult to 
understand. I'm sorry for this and I always wanted to write a tutorial & 
documentation but never had the time for it. RL - you know.

-Ive

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