Week 1a          Introduction
Week 1b          High Dynamic Range imaging (HDRI)

Week 2a          Hands-on HDR assembly
Week 2b          Lighting analysis with HDRI

Week 3a          Glare, Notes on HDR analysis

Week 4a          Tone Mapping with HDRI, Tutorial

Week 4b          Case study: Computational methods of lighting design and analysis

Week 5a          Introduction to Radiance: Illuminance analysis
Week 5b          Illuminance analysis

Week 6a          Student presentations – Project1
Week 6b          Student presentations – Project1

Week 7a          Introduction to Radiance: Luminance analysis
Week 7b          Lighting simulation: Material definitions

Week 8a          Design Problem: Science Museum
Week 8b          Climate based Daylighting Simulation, Tutorial (DA & UDI)

Week 9a          Daylighting analysis of Elektra house
Week 9b          Daylighting analysis

Week 10         Work session: Individual critics on Project 2

Exam week      Student presentations

Project 1: HDR Photography

Project 2: Lighting Simulation

Useful Links:

• Photosphere: High Dynamic Range Image browser for Mac OSX http://www.anyhere.com/

• Radiance Lighting Simulation and Visualization system http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/HOME.html

• Radiance Online Group: http://radiance-online.org/

• Daysim: http://daysim.com/

Few Additional resources:

• Reinhard E, Heidrich W, Debevec P, Pattanaik S, Ward G, and Myszkowski K. High Dynamic Range Imaging: Acquisition, Display, and Image based Lighting. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, 2010.

• Inanici M. “Evaluation of High Dynamic Range Photography as a Luminance Measurement Technique”, Journal of Lighting Research and Technology, Vol. 38, no. 2, June 2006, pp. 123-136.

• Inanici M . “Per-pixel Data Acquisition with High Dynamic Range Photography” International Commission on Illumination (CIE) 2005 Conference, Leon, Spain, 18-20 May, 2005.

Last updated: February 2012