[Radiance-general] out of memory in avstore

[Rob Guglielmetti]

Jack de Valpine wrote:
> .... Perhaps to optimize things further you could then place polygons 
> to close the bottom end of the pipes and again run mkillum on these 
> resulting in light distribution that is effectively at the bottom of 
> the pipe. I am not sure how valid this is so perhaps others can chime in.

Oooh, I hadn't thought of that before, but of course you're right.  A 
very complex skylight/laylight system with multiple "nasty" layers could 
be sorted out, via mkillum, one at a time with progressive mkillum runs 
starting from the outside and working your way in.  Then for the final 
calcs/renders, you would simply use the last set of illums.  Why 
wouldn't this be valid?  As long as you only use the last set of illums 
so there isn't any double- or triple counting of contributions, this 
seems totally valid to me.  Greg? 

- Rob