--- ray/doc/man/man1/dctimestep.1 2009/12/10 00:17:19 1.1 +++ ray/doc/man/man1/dctimestep.1 2010/07/01 21:54:55 1.2 @@ -1,17 +1,35 @@ -.\" RCSid $Id: dctimestep.1,v 1.1 2009/12/10 00:17:19 greg Exp $" +.\" RCSid $Id: dctimestep.1,v 1.2 2010/07/01 21:54:55 greg Exp $" .TH DCTIMESTEP 1 12/09/09 RADIANCE .SH NAME dctimestep - compute annual simulation time-step via matrix multiplication .SH SYNOPSIS .B dctimestep +.B DCspec +[ +.B skyvec +] +.br +.B dctimestep .B Vspec .B Tbsdf.xml .B Dmat.dat [ -.B tregvec +.B skyvec ] .SH DESCRIPTION .I Dctimestep +has two invocation forms. +In the first form, +.I dctimestep +is given a daylight coefficient specification and an optional sky +vector, which may be read from the standard input if unspecified. +The daylight coefficients are multiplied against this vector and the results +are written to the standard output. +This may be a list of color values or a combined Radiance image, +as explained below. +.PP +In the second form, +.I dctimestep takes four input files, forming a matrix expression. The first argument is the View matrix file that specifies how window output directions are related to some set of measured values, such as an array of @@ -42,9 +60,7 @@ is either an ASCII color vector with as many RGB tripl as there are rows in the View matrix, or a combined .I Radiance picture. -Which output is produced depends on the -.I Vspec -argument. +Which output is produced depends on the first argument. A regular file name will be loaded and interpreted as a matrix to generate a color results vector. A file specification containing a '%d' format string will be @@ -53,6 +69,14 @@ interpreted as a list of component pictures, which will be summed according to the computed vector. .SH EXAMPLES +To compute workplane illuminances at 3:30pm on Feb 10th: +.IP "" .2i +gensky 2 10 15:30 | genskyvec | dctimestep workplaneDC.dmx > Ill_02-10-1530.dat +.PP +To compute an image at 10am on the equinox from a set of component images: +.IP "" .2i +gensky 3 21 10 | genskyvec | dctimestep viewc%03d.hdr > view_03-21-10.hdr +.PP To compute a set of illuminance contributions for Window 1 on the Winter solstice at 2pm: .IP "" .2i