[Radiance-general] revising geometry

[Jia Hu]

Thank you, Greg. It is very useful.

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 2:00 AM, Greg Ward <gregoryjward at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a file (coord) included in the ray/obj/lib0 directory of the
> standard distribution:
>
> #
> # Test coordinate system
> #
> # The idea is to include this with an
> # object in order to see its orientation
> # and size.
> #
> # Each coordinate axis is one unit long.
> #
> # The x-axis has a red tip, the y-axis
> # has a green tip, and the z-axis has
> # a blue tip.
> #
>
> void plastic black
> 0
> 0
> 5 .05 .05 .05 .05 .05
>
> void plastic white
> 0
> 0
> 5 .8 .8 .8 .05 .05
>
> void plastic red
> 0
> 0
> 5 .8 .05 .05 .05 .05
>
> void plastic green
> 0
> 0
> 5 .05 .8 .05 .05 .05
>
> void plastic blue
> 0
> 0
> 5 .05 .05 .8 .05 .05
>
> white sphere origin
> 0
> 0
> 4 0 0 0 .15
>
> black cylinder x-axis
> 0
> 0
> 7
>        0       0       0
>        .8      0       0
>        .05
>
> red cone x-arrow
> 0
> 0
> 8
>        .75     0       0
>        1       0       0
>        .15     0
>
> black cylinder y-axis
> 0
> 0
> 7
>        0       0       0
>        0       .8      0
>        .05
>
> green cone y-arrow
> 0
> 0
> 8
>        0       .75     0
>        0       1       0
>        .15     0
>
> black cylinder z-axis
> 0
> 0
> 7
>        0       0       0
>        0       0       .8
>        .05
>
> blue cone z-arrow
> 0
> 0
> 8
>        0       0       .75
>        0       0       1
>        .15     0
>
>
> ---------
> -Greg
>
>> From: Jia Hu <hujia06 at gmail.com>
>> Date: July 15, 2010 12:48:01 PM PDT
>>
>>
>> Hello:
>>
>> If I intend to revise the model in Radiance, I need to know the coordinate
>> so that I can transform or generate new geometry.
>>
>> My current methods of checking coordinates are
>> (1) using rvu option "trace" to see the coordinate of the image.
>> (2) export rad to other software to view the geometry (I saw a recent post
>> by
>> Randolph to discuss about "Radiance Geometry Export", but I have not
>> tried)
>>
>> Is there a better way to show the x, y z axis in the image of Radiance and
>> easily check the
>> coordinate? What is your practice of adding or revising geometry in
>> Radiance?
>>
>> Thank you for sharing your experience,
>> Jia
>>
>
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