[Radiance-general] BSDF orientation and implementation

Andrew McNeil amcneil at lbl.gov
Mon Mar 3 10:44:59 PST 2014


On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Chris Coulter <
Chris.Coulter at burohappold.com> wrote:

> General question if 5-phase is unable to work without full geometry for
> the CFS, are we then limited to only systems that can be modeled (ie, no
> lenses, laser cut panels, etc)?


Chris,

You can use the 5-phase method without CFS geometry. just use a BSDF
material with zero thickness in model_suns.oct. This approach makes sense
for a case where you have a tensor tree BSDF but can't model the actual
system geometry.

Andy
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