Hi, friends,
I am a post-graduate student in Sheffield University. My project is atrium daylighting and I want to simulate atrium daylight using Radiance. As a beginner of this tool, I have many questions:
1. Do you think Ecotech 5.5 with Desktop Radiance control panel (the newest version ) is the right tool to do my atrium research? I like using it for its clear GUI, but if it could finish similar work and achieve the same results as its UNIX/LINUX brother?
2. I think a lot of complex atrium roofs have to be researched and constructed in my project, if UNIX/LINUX Radiance is the most suitable tool? If Linux version is good, could I use the Radiance on Cygwin Environment?
3. Someone has told me that Radiance in Adeline is a cut-version, but I found some atrium daylight papers which have used this tool (Anca D. Galasiu, Morad R. Atif from Canada, B. Calcagni, M. Paroncini from Italy). How about your opinion?
4. Mac Radinace is a new choice , I found some researchers recommended the Sketchup + Radiance is a good way. Could you compare this with Sketchup (or Autocad) + Ecotech +Radiance?
Many thanks to your help.
Jiangtao Du
Mphi/phd student in School of Arch in Sheffield Univ
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Hi,
just to add it to the list of options, take a look at Rayfront (www.schorsch.com) which is a great cross platform tool to both organize your project and have a nice GUI for everything you want. There is a demo available on the site, so you can try it out.
Second, as you mentioned that you have to simulate a lot of atriums. This sounds a bit like a lot of serial and scriptable work. Having a Linux machine and learning some bash scripting may be more useful here then clicking in GUIs. If you follow some conventions in you models (e.g. material/layer names, units, filenames...) then you could automate a lot of work and concentrate on modeling and interpreting the results instead of starting simulations from a GUI a hundred times. I personally like to use make for such stuff, but there are lots of options.
A, and of course, scripting on a Mac is the same as on Linux, Solaris etc., I am working most of the time on an old Powerbook and send the bigger processes to some Linux machines (which are faster and better cooled big pentium4s in my case). So I can actually share the club of those encouraging you to set up some nice OS X environment for this project 
Good luck, Lars.
Hi,
Thank you for the help from Lars, Nick, Giulio, Rob , Evangelos, Martin, etc. I will try to use the Linux or Mac OS to run the Radiance.
Jiangtao
Mphi/phd student in School of Arch in Sheffield Univ
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