[Radiance-general] (no subject) Optics5 to Radiance

Tue, 17 Feb 2004 11:33:15 -0000

Hi Birger,

In the Optics5 output to Radiance the values in the glass material are
transmissivities and not transmittances.

If you take a look at the following file (made with Optics) you will see
that the glass is has a transmittance (tau) of 0.840 (in the comment) and
the definition of glass has 0.930 0.916 0.847 as R G B values. If these were
transmittances it should have been (photopic average):

0.265*tauR + 0.670*tauG + 0.065*tauB = 
0.265*0.930 + 0.670*0.916 + 0.065*0.847 = 0.840 (wrong!)

but it is instead:
0.265*0.930 + 0.670*0.916 + 0.065*0.847 = 0.915 (indeed the transmissivity,
check with the formula).

So I suppose it is exporting correctly. And you can use it directly into
Radiance without converting the values.
Hope it is clear.

Regards,
Annalisa.

#
# FileName= Activ2.lof
# Product Name= Activ(tm) on Clear
# NFRC ID= 9936
# Manufacturer Name= Pilkington North America
# Glazing Type= Coated
# Coated Side= Front
# Transmittance= 0.840
# Front Reflectance= 0.150
# Back Reflectance= 0.148
# Thickness(mm)= 2.235
# Appearance= Clear
#

void  glass       Activ2_glass
0
0
3     0.930     0.916     0.847

void  BRTDfunc    Activ2_front
10
      0.127     0.153     0.212
      0.854     0.841     0.778
      0 0 0
      .
0
9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

void  BRTDfunc    Activ2_back
10
      0.124     0.152     0.208
      0.854     0.841     0.778
      0 0 0
      .
0
9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

-----Original Message-----
From: Birger Van den Brande [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 16 February 2004 15:33
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Radiance-general] (no subject)

Hi there,

just new on the list, and I'm immediatelly going to ask a question :

I'm currently working on a project concerning visual-lighting problems in 
office-buildings, more specifically problems concerning blinding and glare, 
so in short, visual comfort.

Now, for the glazing I'm using Optics5 to calculate the transmittance of the

used glazing-system.  When I get the grafs and data (spectral), I export 
this data to Radiance, via the "export to radiance" option in Optics5 
itself.  I then get the  R, G & B values in radiance.  Now, my question, 
Optics5 provides transmittances and reflectances, so after exporting the 
data to radiance do these values remain transmittances?  The R, G & B 
values, are they transmittances? So for, I haven't found any reason to 
believe that the "export" function converts them to transmissivities, but I 
want te be sure that the convertor doesn't comprise the trans.cal convertion

too.

I 've got another question that is linked to the previous one.  When you get

the converted data from Optics5 in Radiance, can I directly use them as 
glazing-data-input in the material file for the glazing or not?  At the 
moment, I'm still thinking that the R G B 's are transmittances, so if I use

them directly without converting them to transmissivities, am I going to get

  realistic result?  After all, Radiance uses transmissivity for the 
calculation, so I'm risking to get a double-correction on my results.

If anyone can clear this out for me, I'd be very grateful.

Birger

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