[Radiance-general] Radiance documentation organization

[Jack de Valpine]

Hi All,

I appreciate Thomas' notes and thoughts. I think that people obviously 
have a lot to contribute when it comes down to it. I really think though 
that we need to just assume that the CMS is going to be Plone. This 
looks to be quite a robust tools with a wide range of functionality. 
Let's move the discussion up to the next level please.

Again what we need to do is identify what some valuable content areas 
are and who can contribute content. Greg has already put some energy 
into a preliminary outline of content areas. He can't write everything. 
So who out there is ready willing and able? What are you able to 
contribute? Where do we have content (papers, presentations, whatever) 
that with some editing could be contributed? Where do they fit into the mix?

Here is what Greg, originally suggested in his initial email on the topic:

    I strongly encourage others to rearrange these topics, change names,
    add categories, etc.

OK. I am not sure the best way to keep track of this and/or if there 
should be an approval process. We need an item as follows:

Materials

    primitives
    modifiers
    acceptable/typical ranges
    how to correctly define a trans material!
    how to incorporate glazing information from Optics
    procedural materials (eg modifiers using the .cal functional language)
    methods for sampling (measuring) physically materials

Obviously some of this comes from existing content, some of this 
probably needs to be updated, some could perhaps be integrated from 
other sources (assuming their agreement), for example Georg has a really 
excellent diagram/explanation that I think goes a long way to explaining 
trans materials, and some needs to be written or codified from multiple 
email/list exchanges.

Another possible area where I know at least two other have some interest 
(Lars, Francesco and myself at least), running distributed jobs on 
computing clusters.

I guess I will leave it here as my thoughts are not extremely well 
composed at this point.

Best,

-Jack

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