[Radiance-general] Radiance and Photosynthesis

[Lars O. Grobe]

> environment. After a lot of searching, I could not find what I had hoped
> to find - a categorical list of what grows given a quantity of light, in
> terms of light energy, light power*time, illuminance*time, or something
> along those lines. I'm left with finding spaces with similar geometry
> and determining what is growing and what is not.

This sounds really exciting what you are trying to do there. However, as 
it seams to be related to climate, not only illumination, I really 
wonder if a more general simulation tool such as esp-r could be used 
here. To decide what grows where, assumptions of temperature, humidity, 
air flows would be important too. So you would get a climate profile of 
a location from a simulation run and could try to find suitable 
vegetation according to that. I know of lists of plants used e.g. in 
parks, public spaces and gardens, showing basic requirements, but 
nothing in terms of physical units. So I guess this is something that 
would have to be started yet... I am very curious about what you are 
doing, and will try to get some details from a friend who is in botanics.

CU Lars.