--- ray/doc/man/man1/gendaymtx.1 2013/04/30 17:05:27 1.4 +++ ray/doc/man/man1/gendaymtx.1 2018/05/24 15:21:15 1.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" RCSid $Id: gendaymtx.1,v 1.4 2013/04/30 17:05:27 greg Exp $ +.\" RCSid $Id: gendaymtx.1,v 1.8 2018/05/24 15:21:15 greg Exp $ .TH GENDAYMTX 1 01/19/13 RADIANCE .SH NAME gendaymtx - generate an annual Perez sky matrix from a weather tape @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ gendaymtx - generate an annual Perez sky matrix from a [ .B "\-v" ][ +.B "\-h" +][ .B "\-d|\-s" ][ .B "\-r deg" @@ -53,7 +55,7 @@ yield 8760x3 (26280) values per output line (row). 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 @@ -69,6 +71,10 @@ option may be used to produce a sun-only matrix, with Alternatively, the .I \-s option may be used to exclude any direct solar component from the output. +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 By default, .I gendaymtx @@ -101,6 +107,9 @@ 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 @@ -122,5 +131,5 @@ 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), gensky(1), genskyvec(1), rcontrib(1), -xform(1) +dctimestep(1), genBSDF(1), gendaylit(1), gensky(1), genskyvec(1), +rcollate(1), rcontrib(1), xform(1)