[Radiance-general] three-phase method

[Andrew McNeil]

Hi Ogata,
I've uploaded a revised version of the three-phase tutorial:
http://www.radiance-online.org/learning/tutorials/Tutorial-ThreePhaseMethod.pdf
Andy


On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Andrew McNeil <amcneil at lbl.gov> wrote:

> Hi Ogata,
>
> This tutorial was made in the early days of the 3-phase method.  There
> have been many bug fixes, including one where angles were mis-interpreted
> twice, so the result for symmetric CFS was okay.
>
> 1 - Fixing the bug mentioned above affects the numbering of the view
> matrix renderings.  So your figure 13 is correct.
>
> 2 - in figure 18, the venetian0 and venetian 45 labeling is swapped.  The
> result isn't affected.
>
> 3 - this is strange, especially with part of the window showing up black.
>
> Did you make sure to change to the W6 Standard basis in window (Figure 14
> in the tutorial)?
>
>
> I'm working on updating the tutorial to fix these issues and to
> incorporate newer capabilities.  Hopefully I have a new version this week.
>
> Andy
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 7:17 PM, <oga6ya at yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
>
>> thank you greg and german. i finished the example 1 and example 2.
>> i have new questions for the example 1. i made the figure 13, 18, 19, 20,
>> 21. but results seem to be different than the manual. i have done as
>> manual. what is wrong?
>>
>> i attach a PDF file describing my results.
>>
>> the diffarances between my results and the manual are as follows.
>> 1. in figure 13, the order of the images seems to be different.
>> 2. in figure 18, the illuminance in my results are bigger than the
>> manual. also the venetian0 is bigger than the venetian45.
>> 3. in figure 19-21, the distributitons of images are different with the
>> manual. for example, in figure 21, the illuminance on the floor is bigger
>> than other walls in our result. but in the manual, the value on the
>> ceilling is bigger than other place.
>> 4. etc
>>
>>
>> please help me!
>> ogata
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> *From:* Germán Molina Larrain <gmolina1 at uc.cl>
>> *To:* Radiance general discussion <radiance-general at radiance-online.org>
>> *Cc:* oga6ya at yahoo.co.jp
>> *Date:* 2013/3/7, Thu 04:54
>> *Subject:* Re: [Radiance-general] three-phase method
>>
>> I might say the obvious, but I had that problem some time ago (if I
>> remember well), and it was a problem with Radiance installation. Does it
>> say "Done" when you finish that?
>>
>> German
>>
>> 2013/3/6 Greg Ward <gregoryjward at gmail.com>
>>
>> Hi Ogata,
>>
>> I don't see anything visibly wrong with your command line.  Core dumps in
>> general should not happen, but can if the command line arguments are badly
>> wrong since some programs don't check argument counts carefully.  I think
>> the new rcontrib does, but I don't know for sure about rtcontrib.  In any
>> case, I don't see anything obvious here.  What happens when you type
>> "rtcontrib -version" by itself on the command line?  What happens if you
>> type "rcontrib -version?"
>>
>> -Greg
>>
>> *From: *oga6ya at yahoo.co.jp
>> *Date: *March 5, 2013 11:54:48 PM PST
>> *
>> *
>>
>> hi greg,
>>
>> thank you for your advice! i was able to proceed to the next stage.
>> i finished the example 1. now i am tying to the example 2.
>> but i have the new error with the following command.
>>
>> rtcontrib -f klems_int.cal -bn Nkbins -fo -o results/photocells_%s.vmx -b
>> kbinS -m window_south -b kbinE -m window_east -I+ -ab 3 -ad 2000 -ds .15
>> -lw 1e-4 model2_vmx.oct<data/photocells.pts
>>
>> error message
>> segmentation fault (core dumped)
>>
>> please advice me.
>>
>> ogata
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> *From:* Greg Ward <gregoryjward at gmail.com>
>> *To:* oga6ya at yahoo.co.jp; Radiance general discussion <
>> radiance-general at radiance-online.org>
>> *Date:* 2013/2/20, Wed 11:05
>> *Subject:* Re: [Radiance-general] three-phase method
>>
>> Hi Ogata,
>>
>> You need to use the backwards single-quote in that part of the command
>> line (ASCII code 96).  Or, you can substitute the output of the command at
>> that point in the command line, instead.
>>
>> -Greg
>>
>> *From: *oga6ya at yahoo.co.jp
>> *Date: *February 19, 2013 5:50:56 PM PST
>> *
>> *
>>
>> hi all
>>
>> i am trying three-phase method with three-phase method tutorial.
>> i have error with example 1.
>> i finished to make directory by using mkdir...
>> but i have error with following command.
>>
>> vwrays -ff -vf views/back.vf -x 600 -y 600 |\
>>  rtcontrib 'vwrays -vf views/back.vf -x 600 -y 600 -d' -ffc \
>>  -fo -o images/vmx/window_%03d.hdr\
>>  -f klems_int.cal -b kbinS -bn Nkbins -m windowlight \
>>  -ab 2 -ad 1000 -ds .15 -lw le-4 model_vmx.oct
>>
>> error message
>> rtrace: fatal - command line error at 'vwrays -vf views/back.vf -x 600 -y
>> 600 -d'
>>
>> anyone who knows the solution?
>>
>> ogata
>>
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