Tuesday, May 12, 2009
2 colors are enough
I posted another video like this a while ago, but I always get amazed at them. I can't help but think how shape and boundaries are enough for vision. I'd like to write up what's the role of the contrast sign in producing these effects. For one, the shadows being black helps a lot. The black traces the robots leave on the street make it look like it is covered in snow. Here is a simple inversion of the video (no sound so you can play them together without interference):
Shadows become highlights, and the ground seems to be covered in water instead of snow. It would be cool to have another version of the vid with only the boundaries between the black & white regions.
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The game madworld for wii is also only 2-tone. Shading is really not fundamental to vision.
This style of binary, high-contrast black and white 3D rendering is called "Noir rendering" after the Film Noir style of Low Key lighting. To do it, you just place a light source
and render with ray-tracing setting the contrast to 100:
http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs42/f/2009/083/9/7/Film_Noir_Rendering_Tutorial_by_burticlies.jpg
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