[Radiance-general] IES file manipulation

[Rob Guglielmetti]

Mark de la Fuente wrote:

> Greg, in this case I'm looking at a 20' linear fluorescent 
> Indirect/Direct pendant.  The IES file is for a 4' section and I would 
> array it 5 times.  A sphere with 2' diameter would probably not work if 
> the suspension length were less than 2' since this is a partially 
> indirect pendant..  Also, not sure if having the pendant poking through 
> the illum sphere would work.
>  
> I thought of a different way of handling this.  Since the ies2rad 
> program creates the top and bottom rectangles in this case, why not just 
> use an illum material with a void modifier to create the edges of the box?

Hiya Mark,

Do you have the Rendering with Radiance book?  there's a detailed 
example of using lboxcorr to create a rectangular shaped illum container 
for your IES distro.  I think that's what you need. (?)

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      Rob Guglielmetti

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