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■ UNDERSTANDING THE ART OF LIGHTING
For practice, you can always re-create existing images. For example, in
Figure 1.26 the lighting of a Vermeer painting is replicated in 3D.
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Figure 1.26 (Left) Vermeer. A Lady Standing at a Virginal. 1673. Oil on canvas. National Gallery, London. (Right) Naturalistic
lighting re-creation in Maya. The scene is included on the CD as
naturalistic.ma.
Using Stylized Lighting
Stylized lighting pays no heed to the real world but fabricates fantastic sources of light
or simply ignores the lighting information altogether.
The oldest form of stylized lighting can be called 0-point lighting. In this case,
lighting plays no part in the artistic representation. You can see this in prehistoric
art, as well as in the art of ancient or primitive cultures (see Figure 1.27). To this day,
0-point lighting survives as line-art cartoons.
Figure 1.27 Petroglyphics and hieroglyphics carry no lighting information.
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