--- ray/doc/man/man1/gendaymtx.1 2013/01/20 02:07:16 1.1 +++ ray/doc/man/man1/gendaymtx.1 2020/04/13 17:12:19 1.12 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" RCSid $Id: gendaymtx.1,v 1.1 2013/01/20 02:07:16 greg Exp $ +.\" RCSid $Id: gendaymtx.1,v 1.12 2020/04/13 17:12:19 greg Exp $ .TH GENDAYMTX 1 01/19/13 RADIANCE .SH NAME gendaymtx - generate an annual Perez sky matrix from a weather tape @@ -7,8 +7,18 @@ gendaymtx - generate an annual Perez sky matrix from a [ .B "\-v" ][ -.B "\-d|\-s" +.B "\-h" ][ +.B "\-A" +][ +.B "\-d|\-s|\-n" +][ +.B "\-D sunfile" +][ +.B "\-M sunmods" +][ +.B "\-r deg" +][ .B "\-m N" ][ .B "\-g r g b" @@ -16,6 +26,8 @@ gendaymtx - generate an annual Perez sky matrix from a .B "\-c r g b" ][ .B "-o{f|d}" +][ +.B "-O{0|1}" ] [ .B "tape.wea" @@ -36,7 +48,7 @@ parameter setting. .PP Increasing the .I \-m -parameter, typically by factors of two, yields a higher resolution +parameter yields a higher resolution sky using the Reinhart patch subdivision. For example, setting .I "\-m 4" @@ -47,9 +59,17 @@ Thus, an hourly weather tape for an entire year would yield 8760x3 (26280) values per output line (row). .PP The +.I \-A +option tells +.I gendaymtx +to generate a single column corresponding to an average sky +computed over all the input time steps, rather than one +column per time step. +.PP +The .I \-c option may be used to specify a color for the sky. -The gray value should equal 1 for proper energy balance +The gray value should equal 1 for proper energy balance. The default sky color is .I "\-c 0.960 1.004 1.118". Similarly, the @@ -61,12 +81,68 @@ corresponding to a 20% gray. .PP The .I \-d -option may be used to produce a sun-only matrix, with no sky contributions. +option may be used to produce a sun-only matrix, with no sky contributions, +and the ground patch also set to zero. Alternatively, the .I \-s -option may be used to exclude any direct solar component from the output. +option may be used to exclude any direct solar component from the output, +with the rest of the sky and ground patch unaffected. +If there is a sun in the description, +.I gendaymtx +will include its contribution in the four nearest sky patches, +distributing energy according to centroid proximity. .PP The +.I \-n +option may be used if no matrix output is desired. +This may be used to merely check the input, or in combination with the +.I \-D +option, below. +.PP +The +.I \-D +option may be used to specify an output file to contain a list of +solar positions and intensities corresponding to time steps in the +weather tape where the sun has any portion above the horizion. +Sun radiance values may be zero if the direct amount is zero on the input. +Sun modifiers and names will be indexed by the minute, numbered from +midnight, January 1st. +If a hyphen ('-') is given as the argument to +.I \-D, +then the sun descriptions will be directed to the standard output. +This implies the +.I \-n +option just described. +If the +.I \-M +option is given as well, it will be used to record the modifier +names used in the +.I \-D +output, for convenient input to +.I rcontrib(1) +and +.I rfluxmtx(1). +.PP +By default, +.I gendaymtx +assumes the positive Y-axis points north such that the first sky patch +is in the Y-axis direction on the horizon, the second patch is just +west of that, and so on spiraling around to the final patch near the zenith. +The +.I \-r +(or +.I \-rz) +option rotates the sky the specified number of degrees counter-clockwise +about the zenith, i.e., west of north. +This is in keeping with the effect of passing the output of +.I gensky(1) +or +.I gendaylit(1) +through +.I xform(1) +using a similar transform. +.PP +The .I \-of or .I \-od @@ -74,6 +150,13 @@ option may be used to specify binary float or double o This is much faster to write and to read, and is therefore preferred on systems that support it. (MS Windows is not one of them.)\0 +The +.I \-O1 +option specifies that output should be total solar radiance rather +than visible radiance. +The +.I \-h +option prevents the output of the usual header information. Finally, the .I \-v option will enable verbose reporting, which is mostly useful for @@ -95,4 +178,5 @@ Ian Ashdown wrote most of the code, based on Jean-Jacques Delaunay's original gendaylit(1) implementation. Greg Ward wrote the final parameter parsing and weather tape conversion. .SH "SEE ALSO" -dctimestep(1), genBSDF(1), gendaylit(1), genskyvec(1), rcontrib(1) +dctimestep(1), genBSDF(1), gendaylit(1), gensky(1), genskyvec(1), +rcollate(1), rcontrib(1), rfluxmtx(1), xform(1)