From: Paul Debevec 
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 1:48 PM
To: Darin Grant
Subject: Light stage fun

Hi Darin,

I hope all's going well over at DD.  I wanted to report back that last week I drove up to Valencia
to do some tests of using BARCO lite panels as Light Stage elements that can produce good eye
reflections.  The result is that they can - producing fine reflections for a 2K extreme close-up
down to 5 feet away.  A couple images of one experiment with the Grace Cathedral light probe image
are attached.  Using the Barco I-10 panels rather than the Dlite-7 would be far preferable due to
variance with color angle, but that's what they had set up.

I hear that things are looking good for a light stage capture session for Aeon Flux coming up next
month - very cool!  Were you planning on bringing in HD cameras for this?  We can have our in-house
cameras set up, but they are only 640x480 and not hi-res enough to really get skin detail.  As you
know, Sony brought in film cameras for the Spider Man 2 captures, and I think they feel that HD
would have been better.  Let me know if there's a technical contact we should be in touch with.

I heard you had a successful Button test with a Viper camera system and some sort of light dome thing,
so if that's anything you can talk about I'd be interested to hear.  Also, I'm sure the Vipers would
make very good light stage capture cameras if there's ever a way to swing that.

Finally, FYI we have a new version of HDR Shop 2 out:
http://www.ict.usc.edu/graphics/HDRShop/main-pages/hdrshop2.html
which seems to be garnering interest.  USC's office of tech licensing will probably be in touch to see
if DD would like to sign up again.  I asked and they sounded happy to do a cheap site license for DD
again like for v1.

Paul
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