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What documented checks show that a captured lighting HDRI is complete (no clipped sources, full coverage) and calibrated (exposure and colour tied to reference), and what do the manuals leave unsaid?

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No source read gives a numeric acceptance test. The documented checks are scattered: the original paper shows a radiance map stepped down 7 stops with no saturation and compares a rendered local scene with the photograph (differential rendering); a later paper states that diffuse and mirrored estimates must agree if no light clips; a practitioner says the darkest frame must have no clipped sources; a work-in-progress CAVE page neutralises HDRIs with a bracketed chart whose 18 percent patch sets base exposure. Vendor manuals read (Blender, VES guide) state use or purpose only. The checklist assembled here is a synthesis proposal, not a standard. Curator qualifications: All excerpts located; no numeric HDRI acceptance test exists in sources read (bounded negative); documented checks are scattered. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

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    {
      "url": "https://www.pauldebevec.com/Research/IBL/debevec-siggraph98.pdf",
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      "url": "https://vgl.ict.usc.edu/Research/SSLP/A_Single_Shot_Light_Probe-SIGGRAPH2012.pdf",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.pauldebevec.com/Probes/",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
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    {
      "url": "http://blog.gregzaal.com/2016/03/16/make-your-own-hdri/",
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    },
    {
      "url": "https://caveacademy.com/wiki/on-set/data-processing/processing-a-hdri-in-aces/04-match-grade-a-hdri-to-a-shot-workflow/",
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    {
      "url": "https://caveacademy.com/wiki/on-set/data-acquisition/data-acquisition-training/shooting-a-hdri-for-lighting/",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
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    {
      "url": "https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/lights/world.html",
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    {
      "url": "https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/shader_nodes/textures/environment.html",
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    },
    {
      "url": "https://ves-on-set-data.org/data/On-Set_VFX_Data_Collection_and_Usage_Guide_v1.1.0.pdf",
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Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] No source read gives a numeric acceptance test. The documented checks are scattered: the original paper shows a radiance map stepped down 7 stops with no saturation and compares a rendered local scene with the photograph (differential rendering); a later paper states that diffuse and mirrored estimates must agree if no light clips; a practitioner says the darkest frame must have no clipped sources; a work-in-progress CAVE page neutralises HDRIs with a bracketed chart whose 18 percent patch sets base exposure. Vendor manuals read (Blender, VES guide) state use or purpose only. The checklist assembled here is a synthesis proposal, not a standard. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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