I promised at the Leicester workshop to propose a hierarchy for extant Radiance documentation, sort of a straw man to get people thinking about this. I strongly encourage others to rearrange these topics, change names, add categories, etc.
Thinking about it for a bit, I opted for a functional organization over an application-based hierarchy, simply because so many tools and techniques are common to different applications, and I was trying to keep the organization as tree-like as possible, realizing that this goal is basically unachievable.
Caveats aside, here's what I have:
I. Input
A. CAD links and conversion tools
B. Photometry & Sky models
C. Generator programs
D. Scene processing (xform, replmarks, oconv, etc.)
II. Computation
A. Rendering (batch & interactive)
B. Illumination calculations
C. Executive programs (rad, rayfront, etc.)
III. Output
A. Image processing
B. Image viewing
C. Image format conversion
D. Graphing & plotting
In addition, I suggest we include an alternate arrangement of tutorial materials, which necessarily bridge these functional boundaries. I am hoping others can offer suggestions for how these should be organized, as I don't even have a good list of tutorials available.
Some thought should also be given to how one might organize materials from the Radiance workshops. Again, the basic categories above will be bridged or extended by many of the talks, and the chronological arrangement we now have is of less and less use as time goes on.
Help, please!
-Greg
