Parametric Lighting Design

Lighting a space serves not only purely functional purposes like making objects visible but also purposes which have to do more with impression and aesthetics. In most cases, the procedure of lighting design for achieving certain visual effects is still carried out empirically. Procedures or algorithms that could offer a “reverse engineering” way of lighting design i.e. algorithms that take specific visual objectives as input and give optimum lighting design solutions as output could help a lot the lighting designers to do their job more easily and efficiently.This text includes a literature review of the research on lighting design parameters and how they can be methodically controlled to attain specific visual objectives, and a presentation of a proposal for the parameterization of specific visual effects and linking it with corresponding parameters of lighting design, with the goal of arriving at more automated lighting design techniques.