[Radiance-general] sky luminance distribution

[John Mardaljevic]

Hi Johannes,

> I would like to use Radiance with my own (measured) sky luminance  
> distribution rather than using gensky to create a standard sky  
> luminance distribution.

You need to use the brightdata format.  How to do it for the  
Krochmann (145 patch) sky scanner is described in Chapter 3 found here:

http://www.iesd.dmu.ac.uk/~jm/zxcv-thesis/

Should be easy enough to adapt for other patch distributions.

-John

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