Rtrace illuminance reading in Radiance_tutorial

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This is supposed to be a basic question.

I am running the example in the “Radiance_tutorial” to learn how to get illuminance reading using rtrace. The dimensions of the room are 4m5m3m. Then, I placed two bulbs at a height of 2.6m, and the total lumens of each bulb is 1,500 lumens.

In the tutorial, these two bulbs will give approx. 500lux illuminance at a height of 0.85m, but my simulation just gives me approx. 100 lux?

This is the commands I used to calculate the Illuminance values.
"cat data/line.pts | rtrace -I -ab 3 -h -oov scene.oct | rcalc -e ’$1=179*(.265*$4+.670*$5+.065*$6)’ "

I don’t know what is missing in my calculation.

Thanks in advance
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This is a repost of the question here. Please continue response on that thread, not this one.

-Greg

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