Stefan Minning has released a new tone mapping plug-in for After Effects, Atlas. It's a work-in-progress and open-sourced under the free GPL license.Atlas is Windows-only for now -- but the full source code is included, which means that anyone can compile a Mac version. Here's more from Stefan...
"So what’s tone mapping you ask? According to Wikipedia:
The technique is particularly useful if you have high dynamic range images, such as rendered CG-imagery in floating point color-depth (OpenEXR) or HDR photographs, and you want to bring their broad spectrum into a range more suitable for display on a computer monitor or television screen."Tone mapping is a technique used in image processing and computer graphics to map a set of colours to another; often to approximate the appearance of high dynamic range images in media with a more limited dynamic range.
Note: Stefan released [umm sorry, teased instead] another filter recently, Edgar, "which is designed to work in combination with Normality and generates squeaky clean cartoon outlines. Edgar uses a novel, proprietary algorithm developed specifically for the purpose of converting normal passes into line art for use in cartoon and anime productions."
4 comments:
Has he released Edgar? I couldnt find the download link anywhere? Do you know where to download it, I'm eager to test it. Thanks for the great blogging!
You're right --Edgar is in limbo: "no public download link."
wish there was a mac download of the atlas plugin, its windows only. :-(
That's the beauty of open source: You get to compile to whatever format you see fit... ;)
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