5-phase - Direct sun coefficients simulation - "dctimestep" question

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Dear All,

I am using 5-phase method to simulate a case of roller shade covering a part of window at a specific time. This is my working folder 5phase_image - Google Drive. My commands are stored in 5ph_part1.sh (3-phase), 5ph_part2.sh (direct solar part of the 3-phase), and 5ph_part3.sh (direct sun coefficients). 5ph_part1.sh and 5ph_part2.sh were run successfully and the results are stored at 5phase_image/results/7592.hdr and 7592_direct.hdr. For the commands in 5ph_part3.sh, I had error when running the command
dctimestep -o results/cds/lum_sun_1%04d.hdr matrices/cds/hdr/lum_sun_1${idx}.hdr skyVectors/TP_image_sun.smx
and the error was “fatal - unexpected EOF in header”.

Any advice on how to solve this error would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Cong

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I looked at your files, and all the files starting with “matrices/cds/hdr/lum_sun_1” are truncated, so the command that generated those has an error. This was generated (I think) by:

pcomb -h -e ‘ro=ri(1)*ri(2)+ri(3);go=gi(1)*gi(2)+gi(3);bo=bi(1)*bi(2)+bi(3)’ -o matrices/cds/materialMap_1.hdr -o matrices/cds/hdrIllSpace/5phviewM1_${idx}.hdr -o matrices/cds/hdrLumFacade/5phviewM1_${idx}.hdr > matrices/cds/hdr/lum_sun_1${idx}.hdr

I don’t really know if or why this command is failing, but the output does appear to be wrong. I did a spot-check and the inputs to pcomb seem OK. Maybe this is enough for you to track down the issue, or at least find an earlier failure point.

-Greg

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It was because the sky division used in procee of calculating sun coefficient was inconsistent with the one used in gendaymtx. This will cause the demension mismatch when executing matrix multiplication.

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Hi Yongqing,

I think these inconsistent sky divisions will only result in files without data when executing matrix multiplication. I have also tried with -m 1 and still have the error of “fatal - unexpected EOF in header”.

Hi Greg and Yongquing,
I think my error starts with this command

vwrays -vf 5phview.vp -x 400 -y 400 -pj 0.7 -ff | rcontrib -w- -i -ab 1 -ad 256 -lw 1.0e-3 -dc 1 -dt 0 -dj 0 -ffc -n 16 vwrays -vf 5phview.vp -x 400 -y 400 -d -o matrices/cds/hdrIllSpace/5phviewM1_%04d.hdr -e MF:1 -f reinhart.cal -b rbin -bn Nrbins -m solar octrees/sunCoefficients_1.oct

because all my 5phviewM1_%04d.hdr files are black while I can see light in sunCoefficients_1.oct when using

rvu -ab 12 -vf 5phview.vp octrees/sunCoefficients_1.oct

I also checked the results files of sunCoefficients_2.oct and hdrLumFacade/5phviewM1_%04d.hdr files. The result images were black.

Thank you for your help.
Best,
Cong