LightGuider: Guiding Interactive Lighting Design using Suggestions, Provenance, and Quality Visualization

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LightGuider is a novel guidance-based approach to interactive lighting design, which typically consists of interleaved 3D modeling operations and light transport simulations. Rather than having designers use a trial-and-error approach to match their illumination constraints and aesthetic goals, LightGuider supports the process by simulating potential next modeling steps that can deliver the most significant improvements. LightGuider takes predefined quality criteria and the current focus of the designer into account to visualize suggestions for lighting-design improvements via a specialized provenance tree. This provenance tree integrates snapshot visualizations of how well a design meets the given quality criteria weighted by the designer´s preferences. This integration facilitates the analysis of quality improvements over the course of a modeling workflow as well as the comparison of alternative design solutions. We evaluate our approach with three lighting designers to illustrate its usefulness.
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Year of Publication
2020
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IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
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26
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569-578
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1
Number of Pages
10
Date Published
01/2020
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LightGuider
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