[Radiance-general] rsensor and annual daylighting simulation

[Jia Hu]

Thanks Andy!  I was thinking to calculate all the readings for 10,000 rays
and then adding them together, which is incorrect and computational
expensive.


On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Andrew McNeil <amcneil at lbl.gov> wrote:

> Hi Jia,
>
> You can use the -c option in rcontrib to average the coefficients of the
> 10,000 rays.
>
> The command would look something like this:
> rsensor -rd 10000 (MoreArguments) . | rcontrib -c 10000 (MoreArguments)
> model.oct > sensor.vmx
>
> Andy
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Jia Hu <hujia06 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> There are 30 sensors in the space, each of which has sensor spatial
>> response file and use rsensor to calculate illuminance values.  If I use
>> three phase method to conduct annual simulation. My current method is to
>> use:  rsensor -h -vf view.vf . to generate the 10000 rays and use these
>> rays to calcualte V matrix.  in other words, I am using three phase method
>> to calculate 10000 sensor points. At the end, only a single sensor values
>> are calculated.   Is there any better way?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Jia
>>
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