There's a program called SPOT (Sensor Placement and Orientation Tool) that uses Radiance as a back-end. It's mostly for daylighting and electric lighting integration, and it's kind of a pain to get to work with your own Radiance models, but there is an excel spreadsheet interface that is very easy to use. This ease of use comes at the cost of limited features. You can find out more about it here: http://www.archenergy.com/SPOT/
Other than that there is always Desktop Radiance: http://radsite.lbl.gov/deskrad/dradHOME.html
If anyone else knows of any others, I'd be interested to hear about them as well.
Hope that helps!
Dave
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I was wondering is there another windows based program that packages RADIANCE as a lighting analysis tool.
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Although it currently doesn't offer the analysis tools that Radiance has, Maxwell has the underlying architecture to make such analysis possible. It wouldn't surprise me to see an announcement at Siggraph regarding lighting analysis tools in Maxwell or based on Maxwell. Users are certainly asking for it on the Maxwell forums. This is pure speculation on my part. http://www.maxwellrender.com
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Chris Jessee
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On Jun 27, 2006, at 8:30 PM, J. David Maino wrote:
There's a program called SPOT (Sensor Placement and Orientation Tool) that uses Radiance as a back-end. It's mostly for daylighting and electric lighting integration, and it's kind of a pain to get to work with your own Radiance models, but there is an excel spreadsheet interface that is very easy to use. This ease of use comes at the cost of limited features. You can find out more about it here: http://www.archenergy.com/SPOT/
Other than that there is always Desktop Radiance: http://radsite.lbl.gov/deskrad/dradHOME.html
If anyone else knows of any others, I'd be interested to hear about them as well.
Hope that helps!
Dave
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Hi!
You are aware of Georg's solutions? Not only, but also on windows.
http://www.schorsch.com
Lars.
Relux is a windows based program which uses Radiance as an alternative to its radiosity module. It is a commercial package, free licences are available for non commercial use.
http://www.relux.biz/ --> Products --> Vision
Siegbert
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Is there a stand alone version of Radiance that has some sort of interface
of which you can in import complex geometery?
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On 6/28/06, Siegbert Debatin <debatin_2@relux.ch> wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:08:17 -0700, charlie portelli wrote:
> I was wondering is there another windows based program that packages
> RADIANCE as a lighting analysis tool.
Relux is a windows based program which uses Radiance as an alternative to
its radiosity module. It is a commercial package, free licences are
available for non commercial use.
http://www.relux.biz/ --> Products --> Vision
Siegbert
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Is there a stand alone version of Radiance that has some sort of interface
of which you can in import complex geometery?
What exactly do you mean? First, you know radiance-online.org?
If you mean stand-alone as independant from a specific cad, but with GUI, again, I recommend a look at rayfront from schorsch.com. It CAN be stand-alone as well as AutoCAD-integrated.
Without GUI, any Radiance-release for windows is able to import complex geometry over the command-line interface, e.g. the conversion filters.
CU Lars.
Thankds for the responce.
Then I guess my second question is how can I get a copy of Radiance?
Best
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> Is there a stand alone version of Radiance that has some sort of
interface
> of which you can in import complex geometery?
What exactly do you mean? First, you know radiance-online.org?
If you mean stand-alone as independant from a specific cad, but with
GUI, again, I recommend a look at rayfront from schorsch.com. It CAN be
stand-alone as well as AutoCAD-integrated.
Without GUI, any Radiance-release for windows is able to import complex
geometry over the command-line interface, e.g. the conversion filters.
CU Lars.
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Hi Charlie,
You should really take a look at: http://www.radiance-online.org/
See the Software section on the left hand side for a variety of download options.
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Thankds for the responce.
Then I guess my second question is how can I get a copy of Radiance?
Best
On 6/28/06, *Lars O. Grobe* <grobe@gmx.net <mailto:grobe@gmx.net>> wrote:
> Is there a stand alone version of Radiance that has some sort of
interface
> of which you can in import complex geometery?
What exactly do you mean? First, you know radiance-online.org
<http://radiance-online.org>?
If you mean stand-alone as independant from a specific cad, but with
GUI, again, I recommend a look at rayfront from schorsch.com
<http://schorsch.com>. It CAN be
stand-alone as well as AutoCAD-integrated.
Without GUI, any Radiance-release for windows is able to import
complex
geometry over the command-line interface, e.g. the conversion filters.
CU Lars.
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One advantage with Cygwin is that it handles the annoying end of space character incompatibility very well. So it does not matter if you edit a script in windows or unix. It will still work.
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J. David Maino wrote:
There's a program called SPOT (Sensor Placement and Orientation Tool) that uses Radiance as a back-end. It's mostly for daylighting and electric lighting integration, and it's kind of a pain to get to work with your own Radiance models, but there is an excel spreadsheet interface that is very easy to use. This ease of use comes at the cost of limited features. You can find out more about it here: http://www.archenergy.com/SPOT/
Hi David,
I'm sure Zack Rogers appreciates your plug for the program he developed (BTW, the words behind the acronym have changed to "Sensor Placement and Optimization Tool")! I've had a chance to use SPOT a fair amount since coming to AEC, where Zack wrote the program.
You have hit the nail on the head there, GUIs ease the learning curve pain at the expense of inherently limiting what you can do with the underlying software. This becomes painfully evident with a program as powerful and flexible as Radiance. But SPOT does allow one to analyze simple spaces with Radiance (as well as perform some pretty sophisticated photosensor correlation analysis), and I believe a CAD model import tool is on the "long-term to-do list".
I also believe that Georg has created the ultimate GUI for Radiance with his Rayfront product, as it really allows you to delve pretty deeply into the underlying complexities and capabilities of Radiance.
- Rob
Chris Jessee wrote:
Although it currently doesn't offer the analysis tools that Radiance has, Maxwell has the underlying architecture to make such analysis possible. It wouldn't surprise me to see an announcement at Siggraph regarding lighting analysis tools in Maxwell or based on Maxwell. Users are certainly asking for it on the Maxwell forums. This is pure speculation on my part. http://www.maxwellrender.com
Maxwell has been vaguely promising lighting analysis tools for almost two years now, but nothing concrete has emerged and they have missed release dates, angering pre-release purchasers. You raise a good point though, perhaps a third party will take the reins and create a plug-in or something that would allow that. Of course at that point you still have something that has not been extensively validated -- validation being one of many positive traits of Radiance and a benefit of its being around for so long.
- Rob