8.1 The idisplay display driver

This display driver redirects 3Delight's output to i-display. The i-display application is a standalone program designed for image sequence playback; when used with 3Delight it enables the user to perform the following tasks:

1. Accumulate multiple renders into a centralized application. Different renders send their images to the same i-display, thus avoiding a proliferation of windows on the desktop. Additionally, many 3Delight processes can send their images in parallel.
2. Re-render specific images. An image can be rendered again by using the Reload function. Note that the best way to use this feature is to launch the render using the renderdl -id command, without specifying an RiDisplay in the RIB. If using RiDisplay is necessary, it is mandatory to put the name of the RIB in the filename field:

   Display "test.rib" "idisplay" "rgba"
   

3. Re-render crops of a specific image. By holding the CTRL key and the left mouse button pressed and then specifying a recangular area on the screen starts a re-render of that particular screen region. Note that the RIB shouldn't contain any RiCropWindow statements for this feature to work correctly. Comments in (2) also apply here.
4. Save rendered images to disk. Images can be saved as TIFF files(65).
5. Use color lookup tables (LUT). This handy feature is intended for high dynamic range output and enables color correction using 3D lookup tables.

Other features include: zoom, color picker, realtime playback, gamma correction, full screen mode, mipmap viewer, image blending and more. The user should refer to i-display's documentation for more information about its features, menus and shortcuts; it is available at http://www.3delight.com/ZDoc/i-display.html.

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