[Radiance-general] glaze script limitation
Jack de Valpine
jedev at visarc.com
Thu Dec 16 08:17:52 PST 2010
Hi Greg and Francois,
Greg, would it work to just make sure that one surface of any layer is
"uncoated" (eg where Rf == Rb perhaps withing some small error range)
rather than "clear"? Thus allowing for different clear/uncoated glass to
be used as surfaces on different layers?
-Jack
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On 12/16/2010 11:01 AM, Gregory J. Ward wrote:
> Hi François,
>
> I gave this a little more thought after letting the problem sink in, and I don't see now why you couldn't do as you suggested and add a glazing to the database that contains your desired properties. You would have to "lie" and tell the script that one of your two surfaces was glass, then pick your new entry as the other surface, but the result should be accurate. The glaze script actually ends up using the specified non-glass surface parameters in its calculations -- the glass surface is just there as a reference.
>
> The other thing I said is still true -- namely, that we can't practically offer all the possible pairings of surface coatings because they would balloon the database, but if you don't mind adding your own, I don't see why you can't do it that way with the current script. We probably should offer an option to enter custom transmittances and front& back reflectance values for advanced users, and this wouldn't be too difficult to add. I wonder if we could take pasted output from Optics, directly? I don't know if they have a format that gives us the naked data, but I suppose we could extract it from the Optics output for Radiance.
>
> Best,
> -Greg
>
>> From: François Cantin<FCantin at hudonjulien.com>
>> Date: December 16, 2010 7:40:06 AM PST
>>
>> Jack, Greg,
>>
>> Many thanks for your help with the scripts.
>>
>> Your countless hours of devotion to the Radiance community and your advices are more than appreciated...... !!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>>
>> François
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