3D LUT

In the film industry, 3D LUTs (lookup tables) are used to calculate preview colors for a monitor or digital projector of how an image will be reproduced on the final film print. A 3D LUT is a 3D lattice of output color values. Each axis is one of the 3 input color components and the input color thus defines a point inside the lattice. Since the point may not be on a lattice point, the lattice values must be interpolated, most products use trilinear interpolation. [1] Cubes may be of various sizes and bit depths. Often 17x17x17 cubes are used as 3D LUTs. The most common practice is to use RGB 10bit/component log images as the input to the 3D LUT. Output is usually RGB values that are to be placed unchanged into a display device's buffer. Modern graphics cards have direct support for 3D LUTs, allowing entire HD images to be processed at 60fps or faster.

Some systems for 3D LUT Generation

Cine-tal cineSpace 3D LUT generation software for film color management FilmLight Truelight color management system Light Illusion LightSpace CMS for full colour management.

Some systems supporting 3D LUTs

Apple Shake compositing software ARRI ARRILASER Film rekorder, ARRICUBE Color Management System BARCO BARCO RHDM-P Series High-Definition Reference Monitor Assimilate SCRATCH color grading system Autodesk Media and Entertainment Flint, Flame, Inferno, Smoke, Fire, and Lustre, Composite Avid DS digital mastering system Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve CHROME Imaging MATRIX Color Correction and Dustbusting Solutions Cine-tal Cinemage monitor and eLuma LUT processor Digital Vision Film Master, Data Conform and all software products Digital Film Technology LUTher 3D LUT processor DVS Clipster digital mastering systems Eyeon Fusion compositing software FilmLight Baselight color grading system and Truelight LUT processor The Foundry Nuke compositing software Gamma and Density 3cP on-set color grading system

Interactive Effects Piranha Cinema visual effects system and Piranha Player IRIDAS SpeedGrade and FrameCycler FotoKem nextLAB nextLAB Mobile OpenColorIO Open Source Color Management for visual-effects and animation Pandora Revolution and Pixi color grading systems Quantel color grading system Tcube FIG LUT processor TVLogic XVM-245W monitor YoYotta YoYo