RADIANCE Reference Materials

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This page contains links to RADIANCE reference web sites and pages. The information is divided into the following categories:

• Technical Papers
• Documents
• Manual Pages
• Seminars & Course Notes
• E-mail Archives
• Notes
• Rendering with Radiance by Larson and Shakespeare

Several of these documents are provided also or exclusively in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format for convenient printing.

Documents

• RADIANCE Reference Manual / (refman.pdf)
• RADIANCE Tutorial
• Introduction to Rendering with Radiance / (ch1.pdf)
• RADIANCE File Formats / (filefmts.pdf)
• RADIANCE Materials Reference / (materials.pdf)
• RADIANCE Source Tree Roadmap / (srctree.pdf)
• Old User Manual (somewhat dated, but still useful) / (usman1.pdf)
• Simon Crone's Thesis Report, Part I / (report1.pdf)
• Simon Crone's Thesis Report, Part II (user's manual supplement) / (usman2.pdf)

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Manual Pages

• Abbreviated list of RADIANCE Commands
• Alphabetical list of all RADIANCE programs
• A Comprehensive Index of Manual Pages
• Complete Set of PDF Manual Pages / (manpages.pdf)
• Complete Set of HTML Manual Pages / (man_html.tar.gz)

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Seminars and Course Notes

• Siggraph '98 Course 33 Notes / (s98c33.pdf)
  Plate D1. (Lighting Analysis)
  Plate I1. (Qualitative Validation)
• Background / (backgrnd.pdf)
• Analysis Overheads / (analysis.pdf)
• RAD Interface / (rad.pdf)
• The RADIANCE simulation software in the architecture teaching context by Raphael Compagnon
• Raphael Compagnon's '97 Daylighting Course on Radiance / (rc97tut.pdf)
  Compressed tar file with PostScript and Radiance input
  Zip archive of same
• SIGGRAPH '96 Course on Tools for Lighting Design and Analysis / (sg96crs.pdf)

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E-mail Archives

• RADIANCE Online Discussion Groups
• Archived RADIANCE Digests (moderated Q&A)

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Notes

• Note on non-rectangular clipping planes from John Mardaljevic
• Explanation of Image Mapping by Matiu Carr
• Release Notes for Versions 1.2 - Present
• Radiance Compile Switch Guide
• Radiance Visual Comfort (Glare) Calculation
• Film Exposure Equations from IES Handbook
• Setting Gamma Correction for a Specific Monitor
• Determining Your Monitor Gamma
• Radiance Scene Description Language Details
• Sample Materials and their Reasonable Values
• Parallel Rendering on the ICSD Sparc 10's
• The Radiance Picture File Format
• Photo-realistic vs. Physically Based Rendering
• Rendering Options & Settings Table (Useful for Radiance 2.4 Parameters)
• Secondary Light Sources in Radiance
• Writing Translators from CAD Files to Radiance

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