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#How to create real Light

    22-Jan-95 18:45:17
Fm: Arturo Sinclair 71532,1404
To: Nancy Fulton, OpenCAD 72040,166
I have another problem creatin "real light". I have to match studio light setups for a current film project. The plates have already been shot and I made a detailed schematic of the lighting plan. In other words intensity, color temperature in Kelvin degrees, color correction filters used, diffusion etc. Now, how am I supposed to replicate that with only RGB and HSV sliders? :(. The solution of course is to write a routine that takes the watts per nanometer and plots that against the wavelength in nanometers to determine the spectral energy and that would drive the settings. With 3DS being used more and more in conjuction with film and photography this becomes an essential issue. Otherwise you will always have that "overlay" look to your composites. If anyone knows of such or similar routine I would be very interested in knowing-acquiring it Thanks, Arturo cynart@netcom.com 415-7500294