LightGuider is a novel guidance-based approach to interactive lighting design, which typically consists of interleaved 3D modeling operations and light transport simulations. Rather than having designers use a trial-and-error approach to match their illumination constraints and aesthetic goals, LightGuider supports the process by simulating potential next modeling steps that can deliver the most significant improvements. LightGuider takes predefined quality criteria and the current focus of the designer into account to visualize suggestions for lighting-design improvements via a specialized provenance tree. This provenance tree integrates snapshot visualizations of how well a design meets the given quality criteria weighted by the designer's preferences. This integration facilitates the analysis of quality improvements over the course of a modeling workflow as well as the comparison of alternative design solutions. We evaluate our approach with three lighting designers to illustrate its usefulness.

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LightGuider：使用建议，出处和质量可视化指导交互式照明设计。

LightGuider是一种新颖的基于向导的交互式照明设计方法，通常包括交错的3D建模操作和光传输模拟。而不是让设计师使用试错法来匹配他们的照明约束和美学目标，LightGuider通过模拟可能带来最大改进的下一个建模步骤来支持该过程。LightGuider考虑了预定义的质量标准和设计师当前的关注点，以通过专门的出处树可视化照明设计改进的建议。此出处树集成了快照可视化，可以直观地了解设计满足设计者偏好的给定质量标准的程度。这种集成有助于在建模工作流程的过程中进行质量改进的分析，以及对替代设计解决方案的比较。我们与三位照明设计师一起评估了我们的方法，以说明其有效性。