Manufacturing Layered Attenuators for Multiple Prescribed Shadow Images

  • Authors:
  • Ilya Baran;Philipp Keller;Derek Bradley;Stelian Coros;Wojciech Jarosz;Derek Nowrouzezahrai;Markus Gross

  • Affiliations:
  • Disney Research Zürich;ETH Zürich;Disney Research Zürich;Disney Research Zürich;Disney Research Zürich;Disney Research Zürich;Disney Research Zürich and ETH Zürich

  • Venue:
  • Computer Graphics Forum
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We present a practical and inexpensive method for creating physical objects that cast different color shadow images when illuminated by prescribed lighting configurations. The input to our system is a number of lighting configurations and corresponding desired shadow images. Our approach computes attenuation masks, which are then printed on transparent materials and stacked to form a single multi-layer attenuator. When illuminated with the input lighting configurations, this multi-layer attenuator casts the prescribed color shadow images. Alternatively, our method can compute layers so that their permutations produce different prescribed shadow images under fixed lighting. Each multi-layer attenuator is quick and inexpensive to produce, can generate multiple full-color shadows, and can be designed to respond to different types of natural or synthetic lighting setups. We illustrate the effectiveness of our multi-layer attenuators in simulation and in reality, with the sun as a light source. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.