“Recreating the Sodium Vapor Matting Process” by Debevec and Pueringer
Conference:
Type(s):
Title:
- Recreating the Sodium Vapor Matting Process
Session/Category Title: Images, Video & Computer Vision
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Abstract:
We recreate the Sodium Vapor Process for compositing live-action onto a new background using off-the-shelf components: two digital cinema cameras, a prism beamsplitter, low-pressure sodium vapor lamps, and a set of dichroic bandpass and notch reject filters.
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Paul Debevec, Andreas Wenger, Chris Tchou, Andrew Gardner, Jamie Waese, and Tim Hawkins. 2002. A lighting reproduction approach to live-action compositing. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 21, 3 (2002), 547?556.
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J Kudar. 1949. Improvements in and relating to motion picture composite photography. Great Britain Patent 3,095,804.
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Petro Vlahos. 1963. Composite photography utilizing sodium vapor illumination. US Patent 3,095,804.
