tonemapper — A tool for exploring and applying various tonemapping operators.

Description

Tonemapper is a an application to compare and apply various tone mapping operators...

... either via an interactive GUI:

./tonemapper

... or via the command line interface:

# Example: apply the "Reinhard" operator with gamma=2.2 to a list of input images
./tonemapper --no-gui --operator reinhard --gamma 2.2 <images>

Tumblin Rushmeier: From "Tone Reproduction for Realistic Images" by by Tumblin and Rushmeier 1993
Schlick: From "Quantization Techniques for Visualization of High Dynamic Range Pictures" by Schlick 1994
Ward: From "A contrast-based scalefactor for luminance display" by Ward 1994
Ferwerda: From "A Model of Visual Adaptation for Realistic Image Synthesis" by Ferwerda et al. 1996
Durand Dorsey: From "Interactive Tone Mapping" by Durand and Dorsey 2000
Reinhard: From "Photographic Tone Reproduction For Digital Images" by Reinhard et al. 2002
Reinhard (Extended): From "Photographic Tone Reproduction For Digital Images" by Reinhard et al. 2002
Drago: From "Adaptive Logarithmic Mapping For Displaying High Contrast Scenes" by Drago et al. 2003
Reinhard Devlin: From "Dynamic Range Reduction Inspired by Photoreceptor Physiology" by Reinhard and Devlin 2005

Hejl Burgess-Dawson Filmic: By Jim Hejl and Richard Burgess-Dawson presented in the "Filmic Tonemapping for Real-time Rendering" SIGGRAPH 2010 course by Haarm-Pieter Duiker
Aldridge Filmic: From the "Approximating Film with Tonemapping" blog post by Graham Aldridge
Hable Filmic: By John Hable presented in the "Filmic Tonemapping for Real-time Rendering" SIGGRAPH 2010 course by Haarm-Pieter Duiker
Hable (Updated) Filmic: From the "Filmic Tonemapping with Piecewise Power Curves" blog post by John Hable.
Lottes Filmic: From the "Advanced Techniques and Optimization of HDR Color Pipelines" GDC talk by Timothy Lottes
Day Filmic: From the "An efficient and user-friendly tone mapping operator" document by Mike Day
Uchimura Filmic: From the "HDR Theory and Practice" CEDEC talk by Hajime Uchimura

Response function data file: Data-driven curves from external files, e.g. the "DoRF" project from "What is the Space of Camera Response Functions?" by Grossberg and Nayar 2003

Clone the repository recursively all dependencies and use CMake to generate project files for your favourite IDE or build system.

# Unix example using make:
git clone https://github.com/tizian/tonemapper.git --recursive
cd tonemapper
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Optionally, the compilation of the GUI can be disabled via a CMake option:

cmake .. -DTONEMAPPER_BUILD_GUI=OFF

The following external libraries are used:

This project is based on an older, now outdated version that is archived under the version_1 branch.

Tonemapper is provided under the MIT License.

See the LICENSE.txt file for the conditions of the license.