clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:

>
> Display of HDRI images is quite simple, too: Essentially you /can't/
> display them. There aren't any displays out there that would provide the
> necessary dynamic range.

I thought I read somewhere (or maybe not!) that a very specialized display was
available to do that. Maybe in scientific circles; can't remember where I saw
it. Perhaps just wishful thinking!

I've been wondering about the latest whiz-bang flat panel monitors, with their
supposed 10-gazillion-to-1 contrast ratios: whether or not that would suffice to
show HDR images raw. But I suppose the internal circuitry still works in the
standard 8-bit-per-channel way. Not to mention the extreme brightness levels
that would be required of the pixels as well.

>
> So what you do is simulate the effects it would have on photographic
> film or to the naked eye (they, too, don't have HDRI capability): You
> make the >100% portions of the image "bleed" into their neighborhood, by
> mixing in a low-brightness highly blurred copy of the HDR image.

Fascinating! I've never seen it explained that way. More research to do!

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