Dear list,
I have question that I hope you'll help get my head around.
I want to calculate the overall illuminance on a point in space that is,
regardless of directionality.
I have made some simplified 2d sketches for clarity.
As I understand a radiance sensor point in rtrace will have cosine
related sensitivity (image01)
If I am to place two coincident with opposing normals (image2) I'll miss
on contributions from the sides.
Rotating the normals by 90 degrees at a time (figure 3) and summing
contributions might not work either because will overestimate diagonal
contributions (figure 4 ).
So I'm not getting too much closer to the solution...
Is there something that I am missing here?
Any light on this will be appreciated,
Best,
Giovanni Betti
Hi Betti,
I think you can refer to Greg's answer to my question "Spherical sensor."
in Vol 94, Issue 11.
Good luck!
Minki
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Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 12:42:03 +0100
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Subject: [Radiance-general] integral of radiation in one point
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Dear list,
I have question that I hope you'll help get my head around.
I want to calculate the overall illuminance on a point in space that is,
regardless of directionality.
I have made some simplified 2d sketches for clarity.
As I understand a radiance sensor point in rtrace will have cosine
related sensitivity (image01)
If I am to place two coincident with opposing normals (image2) I'll miss
on contributions from the sides.
Rotating the normals by 90 degrees at a time (figure 3) and summing
contributions might not work either because will overestimate diagonal
contributions (figure 4 ).
So I'm not getting too much closer to the solution...
Is there something that I am missing here?
Any light on this will be appreciated,
Best,
Giovanni Betti