RadWorkshop 2006

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The 2006 Radiance workshop was held in the Queens Building at De Montfort University, Leicester.

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An HDR shot of some nice glass bridges over the walk behind the Queens Building.

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The lecture hall where the workshop was held.

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John, the master of ceremonies and first speaker, with Alan in the foreground.

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Greg
Greg, the second speaker of the morning updated us on new Radiance features.

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Axel
Axel offered some perspectives on OpenSource software.

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Alan
Alan talked about the "Mother of All Renderers."

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During the break, we had a high dynamic range display to entertain us.

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Kurt
Kurt discussed methods he and others at Bristol University have developed for parallel rendering.

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David
David (also of Bristol Univ.) talked about fast parallel hardware and its applications to rendering.

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Matt
Matt (Bristol again) talked about rendering on mobile devices (e.g., PDAs).

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Lunch was provided both days in the lecture hall.

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Allan
Allan gave a brief presentation on transparent glazings.

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Adriana
Adriana told us all about circadian rhythms and some ideas she's developed for enhancing blue light to maintain them.

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Adriana

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Krzysztof
Krzysztof also spoke about the accurate modeling of light spectra for the purposes of evaluating circadian stimulation.

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Timo
Timo talked about comparisons between renderings and reality using psychophysical experiments.

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Peter
Peter gave us an update on his reflectance/transmittance/emittance measurement apparatus (i.e., goniophotometer).

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Luisa
Luisa explained the WebHDR system she and Axel developed.

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At the end of the first day, we all walked to a nearby Indian restaurant for dinner.

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The restaurant.

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Drinks and more talk.

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Ummm...

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John
John started off the second day as well, this time giving us a little history on the Daylight Coefficient method and some of the other climate-based techniques he's helped to develop.

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Merete
Merete spoke about a "light flow meter" developed at Wellington (NZ).

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Francesco
Francesco spoke about climate-based modeling and a visualization system he has extended for daylighting design (OpenDX).

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Thomas
Thomas discussed a system he and Francesco have developed for lighting analysis using Radiance from within Blender.

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Andrew
Andrew discussed optimization and visualization methods being used at Arup.

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Guilio
Guilio, also from Arup, explained some more advanced optimization techniques for building design.

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Philip
Philip spoke about design applications of Radiance from Arup in Australia, though he's now joined the others in London.

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Don
Don gave a demonstration of their Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES) product.

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Andrew
Andrew Marsh gave a demo of Ecotect.

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Greg honored Peter with a pocket knife and a check for all the work he has done putting together and maintaining radiance-online.org.

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Greg also thanked John for organizing the workshop with a copy of "HDR Imaging" by Reinhard et al.

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The group assembled for a photo. (Can you spot the one we had to paste in?)

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