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> Gilles Tran <gitran_nospam_@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>> A very useful feature that goes hand in hand with full area lights is 
>> color
>> mapping aka tone mapping aka exposure control.
>
>  I didn't quite get the idea from those images. Some text explaining in
> simple terms the idea and the algorithm could be useful.

In addition to Thorsten's links, here's an explanation about how it's done 
in Mental Ray :
http://toi.bk.tudelft.nl/toi-pedia/index.php?title=Rendering_Mental_Ray:_Tone_mapping

G.

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