Light

Properties of light

What is light?

The light field

Stanford light field gantry

More info on light fields

What is light?

The visible light spectrum

Light spectrum

The human visual system

Density of rods and cones

Demonstrations of visual acuity

Demonstrations of visual acuity

Brightness contrast and constancy

Light response is nonlinear

Visual dynamic range

After images

Color perception

Color perception

Perception summary

Camera response function

Recovering the camera response

Recovering the camera response

High dynamic range imaging

Light transport

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Slide 27

The interaction of light and matter

The BRDF

Diffuse reflection

Diffuse reflection

Specular reflection

Phong illumination model

Measuring the BRDF

Columbia-Utrecht Database

Advanced topics