--- ray/doc/man/man1/gendaymtx.1 2021/02/17 02:30:08 1.15 +++ ray/doc/man/man1/gendaymtx.1 2024/08/05 17:23:56 1.18 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" RCSid $Id: gendaymtx.1,v 1.15 2021/02/17 02:30:08 greg Exp $ +.\" RCSid $Id: gendaymtx.1,v 1.18 2024/08/05 17:23:56 greg Exp $ .TH GENDAYMTX 1 01/19/13 RADIANCE .SH NAME gendaymtx - generate an annual Perez sky matrix from a weather tape @@ -29,7 +29,9 @@ gendaymtx - generate an annual Perez sky matrix from a ][ .B "-o{f|d}" ][ -.B "-O{0|1}" +.B "\-O{0|1}" +][ +.B "\-i intvl" ] [ .B "tape.wea" @@ -81,6 +83,10 @@ The default value is .I "\-g 0.2 0.2 0.2" corresponding to a 20% gray. .PP +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. The .I \-d option may be used to produce a sun-only matrix, with no sky contributions, @@ -88,11 +94,7 @@ 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, -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. +with the other sky and ground patches unaffected. .PP The .I \-u @@ -155,6 +157,15 @@ through using a similar transform. .PP The +.I \-i +option specifies the actual capture interval in minutes of the original +weather data. +Please see the man page for +.I gendaylit +to understand this correction, which is applied only near sunrise and +sunset. +.PP +The .I \-of or .I \-od @@ -190,5 +201,6 @@ 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), gensky(1), genskyvec(1), -rcollate(1), rcontrib(1), rfluxmtx(1), xform(1) +dctimestep(1), genBSDF(1), gendaylit(1), gensdaymtx(1), gensky(1), +genskyvec(1), genssky(1), +rcollate(1), rcontrib(1), rfluxmtx(1), rmtxop(1), xform(1)