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Revision: 1.6
Committed: Wed Feb 3 00:22:55 2016 UTC (9 years, 3 months ago) by greg
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.5: +6 -1 lines
Log Message:
Added -UU option to wrapBSDF to remove geometry file as well

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1 greg 1.6 .\" RCSid $Id: wrapBSDF.1,v 1.5 2016/02/02 22:34:00 greg Exp $
2 greg 1.1 .TH WRAPBSDF 1 2/20/2015 RADIANCE
3     .SH NAME
4     wrapBSDF - put XML wrapper around WINDOW6 BSDF data
5     .SH SYNOPSIS
6     .B wrapBSDF
7     [
8     .B \-W
9     ][
10     .B \-c
11     ][
12     .B "\-a {kf|kh|kq|t3|t4}"
13     ][
14     .B "\-u unit"
15     ][
16     .B "\-g geom.mgf"
17     ][
18     .B "\-f 'x=string;y=string'"
19     ][
20     .B "\-s spectr"
21     ][
22     .B "\-tb inp"
23     ][
24     .B "\-tf inp"
25     ][
26     .B "\-rb inp"
27     ][
28     .B "\-rf inp"
29     ][
30 greg 1.5 .B \-U
31     ][
32 greg 1.3 .B "\-C comm"
33     ][
34 greg 1.1 .B "input.xml"
35     ]
36     .SH DESCRIPTION
37     .I WrapBSDF
38     takes ASCII matrix or tensor tree data given in one or more
39     .I "\-tf, \-tb, \-rf,"
40     and
41     .I \-rb
42     options and adds them to the given
43     .I input.xml
44     file or to a standard template suitable for
45     .I Radiance
46     and
47     .I WINDOW6.
48     The
49     .I \-W
50     option may be given to ensure adherence to the
51     .I WINDOW6
52     requirements, which draws from a standard template
53     and warns the user if the required additional fields are not
54     provided.
55     .PP
56     Fields may be set by one or more
57     .I \-f
58     options, which take pairs of XML tag names and values, such as
59     .I "\-f Manufacturer=ACME".
60     A number of shorthand names are provided corresponding to the
61     following tags (asterisk tags are required with -W):
62     .sp
63     .nf
64     m Manufacturer(*)
65     n Name(*)
66     c ThermalConductivity
67     ef EmissivityFront
68     eb EmissivityBack
69     eo EffectiveOpennessFraction
70     t Thickness(*)
71     h Height
72     w Width
73     .fi
74     .PP
75     If any dimensions are given, thier units will correspond to
76     meters by default, or the
77     .I \-u
78     option may be used to specify one of:
79     meter, foot, inch, centimeter, or millimeter.
80     Any other unit specification will result in an error, and
81     only one set of units may be selected.
82     A "Materials and Geometry Format" file may be provided with the
83     .I \-g
84     option, and will also be in the indicated units.
85     .PP
86     The spectrum corresponding to a particular set of data may be given
87     before the data option using a
88     .I \-s
89     specification, whose argument is either the name of a spectral
90     sensitivity file or one of the standard spectra:
91     Visible, Solar, NIR, CIE-u, CIE-v, CIE-X, or CIE-Z.
92     Different spectra may be given for different distribution data,
93     and the default spectrum is Visible (CIE-Y).
94     .PP
95     The
96     .I \-a
97     option specifies the angular sampling basis for all the data
98     provided, and must be set if any data is given.
99     Legal arguments for this option are:
100     .sp
101     .nf
102     kf Klems full sampling (145x145 matrix)
103     kh Klems half sampling (73x73 matrix)
104     kq Klems quarter sampling (41x41 matrix)
105     t3 Tensor tree isotropic sampling
106     t4 Tensor tree anisotropic sampling
107     .fi
108     .sp
109     In the case of Klems data, the
110     .I \-c
111     option may be specified to include a correction for solid
112     angle, which is necessary to convert flux form factors into
113     BSDF data.
114 greg 1.4 Since flux factors rather than BSDF values are computed by
115 greg 1.1 .I rfluxmtx(1)
116     and similar sources, this is often necessary for proper conversion.
117     .PP
118     Most options that accept file names
119     can take data from the standard input by using a hyphen ('-')
120     in place of the file, but only one option at most may read from stdin.
121 greg 1.2 Data input may be read from another program by beginning the input
122     specification with a quoted exclamation point ('!') followed by the command.
123 greg 1.3 .PP
124     The
125     .I \-C
126     option may be used to specify a comment to be inserted near the
127     head of the output.
128     Up to 30 comment strings may be given, and they will appear one
129     after the other in the prologue surrounded by the XML comment syntax.
130 greg 1.5 .PP
131     The
132     .I \-U
133     option tells
134     .I wrapBSDF
135     to unlink (remove) input data files following successful completion.
136     These files are often temporary, existing solely for the purposes
137     of data transfer.
138 greg 1.6 If given as
139     .I \-UU,
140     then the MGF geometry file given by the
141     .I \-g
142     option (if any) will also be unlinked.
143 greg 1.1 .SH EXAMPLE
144     Create an WINDOW6 BSDF from computed transmission matrix:
145     .IP "" .2i
146     rfluxmtx -fa ... | wrapBSDF -W -u millimeter -f 't=5;m=3M;n=Trans30' -c -tb - > Trans30.xml
147     .PP
148     Add a name and MGF geometry to an XML file:
149     Add a name and MGF geometry to an XML file:
150     .IP "" .2i
151     wrapBSDF -f 'Name=My Device' -g MyDevice.mgf orig.xml > revised.xml
152     .SH AUTHOR
153     Greg Ward
154     .SH "SEE ALSO"
155     bsdf2klems(1), bsdf2ttree(1), genBSDF(1), mgf2rad(1),
156     pkgBSDF(1), rad2mgf(1), rfluxmtx(1)