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29 Jul 2024 04:24:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: What is HDRI?  
From: Mark Hanson
Date: 12 Jan 2003 13:19:31
Message: <3e21b1b3$1@news.povray.org>
"Christopher James Huff" <cja### [at] earthlinknet> wrote in message
news:cja### [at] netplexaussieorg...
> An HDRI image can be used to store lighting values for a scene, either
> precomputed ahead of time or taken from a real-world sample. Since the
> lighting values already exist, it doesn't take as long as having the
> actual scenery there, it is easier to set up, and the lighting is more
> realistic than a background from an ordinary image, with color values
> clipped to a small range.

Where does the scene come from? A scene you've already rendered? From
reading a few of the posts in p.b.i., it seemed like they were photographs.
Is that it?

Mark


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