[Radiance-general] RE: Axel's tutorials

[Michael Kruger]

I strongly second greg's "wow!" My first introduction to radiance was 
thru a training session run by Axel & his tutorials are the best I've seen
so far wrt radiance.

Axel: Would you mind if I added your tutorial to www.radiance-wiki.org?

mike

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> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:39:24 -0000 (GMT)
> From: "Axel Jacobs" <a.jacobs at londonmet.ac.uk>
> Subject: [Radiance-general] Radiance tutorial (Was: MacosX and X11 and
> 	radiance and blender and brad)
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> Johannes,
> 
> > btw: is there a list like "recommended readings" for people who are 
> > starting to learn radiance? I would like to know, as an 
> example, what 
> > kind of math and physics people (really) have to know, and 
> which books 
> > are recommended therefor etc.
> > I have orderd the "The Art And Science Of Lighting 
> Visualization" - is 
> > everything (and more...) I (will) ask about inside this book?
> 
> Make sure you also take a look at the LEARNIX web site:
> http://luminance.londonmet.ac.uk/learnix/
> 
> Under "Documentation", you4ll find our course notes from the 
> simulation module we teach on our masters course. We teach 
> RADIANCE for lighting, ESP-r for thermal simulations.
> 
> Oh, and DO give LEARNIX a spin!
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Axel
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> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:21:05 -0800
> From: Greg Ward <gregoryjward at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] Radiance tutorial (Was: MacosX and X11
> 	and	radiance and blender and brad)
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> Wow, Axel.  I hadn't seen these tutorials before.  They're amazing!  
> With your permission, I'd like to add them to the list of 
> documents on radsite, which is unfortunately down at the 
> moment.  This also dovetails with a discussion we've been 
> having on the dev list about providing an interactive 
> repository (or Wiki) for Radiance user documentation.  I know 
> a lot of people don't subscribe to that list, so I'll summarize:
> 
> It started as a rehash of why Radiance authorship is 
> restricted, and if there were any decent guidelines for code 
> modifications, which is how it got on the dev list.  Then, 
> people started suggesting things about how to set up 
> documentation for the software, and it eventually came back 
> to some kind of FAQ service for beginners.  The general 
> feeling is that a lot of people who might otherwise be 
> interested in Radiance are put off by the command-line 
> structure, the scattered documentation, and the lack of any 
> clear place to begin (aside from the book of course).  
> After all, not everyone wants to order a book and wait for it 
> to be shipped to their door just to decide whether or not 
> it's worth the effort to learn something.
> 
> The current line of reasoning is to provide a forum where 
> more experienced users could answer beginner's questions and 
> have their answers continually available and editable.  There 
> would also be a place for people to write essays on how they 
> got started with Radiance, things to avoid, and things to pay 
> attention to.  How-to manuals and tutorials such as Axel's 
> would be a perfect jumping off point for a lot of newbies, I 
> would think.  The current set of tutorials on radsite are 
> getting a little "long in the tooth" so to speak, even if 
> they still have a lot of useful information.
> 
> I think we're going back and forth right now trying to come 
> up with the best way to set this up.  Some people have 
> already set up their own resource centers, and we could 
> either link to them or take some of their content into our 
> own organization.  (See Georg Mischler's Lighting Wiki 
> example at <http://lightingwiki.com/> as an example of what's 
> already out there.)  Probably the best way to start is to 
> write to me if you have some materials to offer, and I'll 
> talk with Peter A-B about setting something up at radiance-online.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Greg
> 
> > From: "Axel Jacobs" <a.jacobs at londonmet.ac.uk>
> > Date: January 17, 2005 8:39:24 AM PST
> >
> > Johannes,
> >
> >> btw: is there a list like "recommended readings" for 
> people who are 
> >> starting to learn radiance? I would like to know, as an 
> example, what 
> >> kind of math and physics people (really) have to know, and which 
> >> books are recommended therefor etc.
> >> I have orderd the "The Art And Science Of Lighting 
> Visualization" - 
> >> is everything (and more...) I (will) ask about inside this book?
> >
> > Make sure you also take a look at the LEARNIX web site:
> > http://luminance.londonmet.ac.uk/learnix/
> >
> > Under "Documentation", you4ll find our course notes from the 
> > simulation module we teach on our masters course. We teach RADIANCE 
> > for lighting, ESP-r for thermal simulations.
> >
> > Oh, and DO give LEARNIX a spin!
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Axel
> 
> 
> 
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