Physical Lighting and Virtual Scenography: At the vortex

visualization for more than a decade, yet these tools are only now
gaining in popular usage. The realtime environments of theatre and
television have begun to combine computer generated settings with live
performers, but their lack of lighting interaction limits usage.
This talk will review several current implementations of lighting
visualization tools which are gaining/have gained acceptance within the
live entertainment and architectural lighting design community. As the
capabilities of visualization continue to expand so will practical
solutions to some of the current problems encountered when attempting to
combine virtual scenography, which has been constructed using physically
based visualization techniques, and the live actor revealed by
stage/studio lighting. Some of these specific light related challenges
will be illustrated and discussed.