The XNA4 HiDef profile supports a SurfaceFormat.HdrBlendable format, allowing color values in a higher dynamic range than can be displayed. One of the most important steps in High Dynamic Range (HDR) post-processing is mapping color values to a displayable range, such as that shown in Figure 1 below.
Figure 1. Tone-mapped rendering of North America.
I initially scale the pixel luminance using the average luminance (1). If the average luminance greater or less than the mid-gray value, the pixel is scaled accordingly.
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Figure 2. Scaled Luminance by Average Luminance.
I then compress the luminance using the scaled and maximum luminance (2). If the average luminance is the same as the mid-gray value, the pixel values are compressed to within the 0-1 range.
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Figure 3. Tone-Mapped Luminance by Average Luminance.
I can then downsample, apply the tone mapping algorithm, and reject any color values below a given threshold for a bright-pass filter. After applying appropriate post-processing filters I can then recombine with the original tone-mapped image. An example is shown below in Figure 4, where an emissive texture on the ship's engines has exceeded the bloom threshold after tone-mapping.
Figure 4. HDR Image showing engine bloom. Battlestar Galactica models (based on new TV series) by Coxxon.
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