7. Global Illumination in Architecture and Theater Half Day / Beginning Global illumination techniques such as Monte Carlo ray tracing and radiosity enable us to accurately model lighting designs and create physically realistic renderings for architectural, theater and stage, and entertainment applications. This course reviews these techniques, with an emphasis on useful solutions, available software and hardware tools, and real-world case studies. Who Should Attend Anyone interested in using computer graphics to model lighting designs and create physically realistic renderings for architectural, theater and stage, and entertainment applications. This includes computer graphic artists, software developers, theater and stage set designers, entertainment imagineers, architects, and lighting designers. Organizer Ian Ashdown Ledalite Architectural Products, Inc. Lecturers Stuart Feldman Lightscape Technologies, Inc. Robert Shakespeare Indiana University Greg Ward Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Schedule 1:30 pm: Global Illumination and Lighting Design 2:15 pm: Lighting Design for Theatre and Stage 3:00 pm: Break 3:15 pm: Tools for Lighting Design and Analysis 4:00 pm: Photorealism in Architecture and Entertainment 4:45 pm: Q&A Course Notes Chapter 2: Applications of Theatrical Lighting Design, by Robert Shakespeare, is incorrect in both the printed notes and on the CD-ROM. A PDF version of the correct content can be downloaded here (Adobe Acrobat PDF, 780KB).

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