Hello all,
I want to find the luminance values for a grid of points using rtrace but
from a specific position of an observer.
observer's position (2,0,1.5)
grid of points : (0,1,0) , (0,2,0)
(1,1,0) , (1,2,0)
(2,1,0) , (2,2,0)
(3,1,0) , (3,2,0)
How do I have to write the rtrace command and the file which contains the
points and the vectors?
Thanks,
Nick
Hi Patrick,
If you put your grid points in a file called 'grid.pts' you can use the
following rcalc command to generate a file containing a series of
directions from the observer point to each grid point.
rcalc -e '$1=2;$2=0;$3=5;$4=$1-2;$5=$2-0;$6=$3-1.5' grid.pts >
directions.pts
Then use rtrace as normal to calculate the luminance values using the
file directions.pts. Ore more simply you could pipe the results of rcalc
directly to rtrace like so:
rcalc -e '$1=2;$2=0;$3=5;$4=$1-2;$5=$2-0;$6=$3-1.5' grid.pts | rtrace
...
By the way, your points need to be entered in the grid.pts without
commas or parenthesis like this:
0 1 0
0 2 0
1 1 0
Hope that's helpful,
Andrew
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Subject: [Radiance-general] luminance values
Hello all,
I want to find the luminance values for a grid of points using rtrace
but from a specific position of an observer.
observer's position (2,0,1.5)
grid of points : (0,1,0) , (0,2,0)
(1,1,0) , (1,2,0)
(2,1,0) , (2,2,0)
(3,1,0) , (3,2,0)
How do I have to write the rtrace command and the file which contains
the points and the vectors?
Thanks,
Nick
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