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This page contains links to World Wide Web sites of interest to Radiance users. The information is divided into the following categories:

• Studies/ Reference
• Business
• Educational
• International
• Freelance

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Studies/ Reference

These studies and reference papers provide additional RADIANCE information.

• Excerpts from Stuart Lewis' Master's thesis in Architecture

  This page is a marked-up extract from "RADIANCE in the Design Process: Selected Illustrations" by Stuart Lewis. It includes discussion of how the Radiance synthetic imaging system was used as a design and analysis tool. (Georgia Tech)

• NIST Conference Room Comparison

  Real and Synthetic Image Comparison and Validation generated at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). (US)

• NRC-IRC Lighting Quality in Design

  The National Research Council (NRC) Institute for Research in Construction (IRC) investigated the effects of lighting quality on office task performance. (Canada)

• Physically Accurate Lighting Simulation in Computer Graphics Software

  This paper compares three different computer graphics systems claiming to physically accurate global lighting simulation. Physical accuracy of these systems is the main criterion for this comparison.

• Radiance Reference Manual in French

  Provided by Jean-Louis Maltret of Gamsau's Ecole d'Architecture de Marseille. (France)

• Simon Crone's Radiance Home Page

  Contains Radiance function files, selected scanned materials, a Radiance gallery, inline images, and several thesis papers. Curtin University of Technology, Perth (Australia)

 

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Business

These companies use Radiance software to provide services to their clients.

• GENESYS Lighting Workstation

  Lightolier (Genlyte) Corporation has incorporated Radiance into their GENESYS lighting design software that runs on PC-compatibles.

• Artifex Home Page

  Artifex is a research and design studio exploring applications in 3d visualization, animation, and World Wide Web Communications. (Bloomington, IN)

• Artifice, Inc. makers of DesignWorkshop.

  DesignWorkshop is a Macintosh and Windows modeling application which exports to Radiance and is closely linked to a version of Radiance which runs under MachTen on the Apple PowerMac. This site also features a gallery of images.

• Fraunhofer ISE Radiance Page

  Radiance raytracing software is used at Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) mainly for daylighting calculations. (Germany)

• Georg Mischler's Autocad to Radiance Interface Project

  Autocad runs on many of the platforms that are used for radiance work, and it features a simple way to create graphical user interfaces that run with little or no change on every Autocad platform. (Germany)

• Robert Kay's Radiance page with Macintosh advice

  Robert has posted some rendered images of objects on the web. He has had success using Radiance on PowerPCs, and shows that Radiance can do more than just architectural renderings. (Bergdesign, TX)

• Space & Light Home Page

  Analytical rendering services for building design professionals and a Radiance export utility for AutoCAD R12 DOS and Windows. (Berkeley, CA)

• VisArc Architectural Visualization

  This company provides a range of image-based products to facilitate the communication of architectural intention in the design process. (Charlestown, MA)

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Educational

Radiance has been put to the test by university students and departments worldwide.

• Design Studio of the Future

  The Electronic Studio is a rendering project that compares Radiance output to photographs (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

• ECADAP Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, England

  Current Institute projects featuring RADIANCE : Predicting Time-varying Illuminance in Complex Spaces With Innovative Glazing and Lighting Systems Daylighting Design Guidance for Non-Domestic Atrium Buildings. (De Montfort University, Leicester, England).

• Implementation of Radiance picture i/o routines

  Information about the RGBE file format from Bruce Walter. (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)

• Lighting Design Studio

  Martin Moeck's courses and projects (University of Kansas)

• Low Energy Architecture Research Unit

  The Low Energy Architecture Research Unit (LEARN) was created in 1987 to bridge the gap between architecture and research in low energy design. Research focuses on the efficient use of energy and its conservation in building design. (University of North London)

• Materials and Geometry file format (MGF)

  MGF is a least common denominator language for describing scenes and objects.

• Radiance in Architecture at Auckland University

  Radiance images, animations and reports from the Architectural Property and Planning Department. (New Zealand)

• Radiance at the Design Integration Laboratory

  Radiance images, student and research projects, support and reference materials, and a tutorial at the Architecture Department of the University of Oregon.

• Radiance Studies and Validation by John Mardaljevic

  John's projects for the Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development validate the use of radiance software for real sky conditions (De Montfort University, UK).

• Theatre Computer Visualization Center

  The mission of the lab is to research and develop computer based collaborative and design tools which will enhance live performance and the Theatre Arts. (Indiana University).

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International

Radiance has had wide spread applications both theoretically and geographically.

• ADELINE Home Page

  ADELINE (Advanced Daylighting and Electric Lighting Integrated New Environment) is an integrated lighting design computer tool used to predict daylighting and lighting performance in complex building spaces. (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA)

• Antonio Costa's Lighting Design Page

  Lighting Studies of a building interior and an office working space. ISEP, Porto (Portugal)

• Erwin Zierler's work at the University of Innsbruck

  This page shows some example renderings to give you an idea of the possibilities of modern techniques in architectural visualization. (Austria)

• Institute for Computer Graphics

  Technical University, Graz (Austria)

• Mathias Wambsganss - Daylight design program description.

  The program TAGESLICHT DESIGN was developed to make declarations about the daylight conditions in planned rooms during the early stages of design.

• Swiss RADIANCE Site

  This RADIANCE site is mirrored in Switzerland.

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Freelance

Some people have the strangest hobbies...

• Boyd Currey's Radiance Web Page

  Pictures created using Radiance, most of the images were rendered at 4000 pixels in width, in parallel, on 4 DEC Alpha AXP's.

• Terry Ridder's Radiance Page

  Images rendered on a Pentium 100MHz, running Linux 2.0.13 (IL)

• Mark Stock's Renderings

  Radiosity raytraced images and animations. (University of Michigan)

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