[Radiance-general] trans material with sunless sky

Peter Apian-Bennewitz [email protected]
Tue, 11 Dec 2001 09:57:40 +0100


George Michaelson wrote:

> In the immediate transition from bright sunlight to an inside location
> I can agree it initially looks way dark.
>
> But pupils dilate.
>
> Shouldn't there be a hack on the final brightness to simulate the stable
> post-transition *apparent* brightness of the inside room?
>
> I mean, am I alone in initially thinking a 60 watt reading light is dim
> but inside 5 minutes, its way bright?
>
> Sure, some radiance users want to know what a light meter tells them. But
> other radiance people want to know what a person will SEE.

 pcond   applies a post processing step on the final image to model eye
response.

-Peter

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