[Radiance-general] sudo recontrib

Humberto Antunes hs.antunes at campus.fct.unl.pt
Mon Mar 21 06:17:39 PDT 2016


I have read more carefully you e-mail, do you have 552 sensor points? if
yes your number of rows in the view matrix is 552 and not 145, try to
change NROWS=552 in you view matrix.

Best regards
Humberto A.

2016-03-21 12:38 GMT+00:00 <urtza.uriarte at upc.edu>:

> Dear Humberto,
>
> Yes, I am trying without "-n 8760" option, as follow:
>
> dctimestep photocells.vmx Film3M_145x1297_9142012_t.xml southest.dmx
> Barcelona.smx
> fatal - unexpected EOF reading Barcelona.smx
>
> I do not know. Thank you,
> Urtza.
>
>
> Humberto Antunes <hs.antunes at campus.fct.unl.pt> escribió:
>
> Hi Urtza,
>
> Are you running dctimestep with the "-n" option? If yes try to run it
> without it. use:
>
> dctimestep view.mtx daylight.mtx transmision.xml sky.mtx
>
> For me this solved the problem, no need for the "-n 8760" option.
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> Best regards
> Humberto A.
>
> 2016-03-21 11:16 GMT+00:00 <urtza.uriarte at upc.edu>:
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>> *Dear Andy and Greg, (I am trying to follow Humberto's issue, as well) I
>> have added to View Matrix sensor points number (I notice that in Daylight
>> Matrix I have not had NROWS data and I have added NROWS=145). To sum up I
>> have; Sky Matrix, 2306x8760; Daylight Matrix, 145x2306; and View Matrix,
>> 552x145. I launched dctimestep and it scripts the same error (fatal -
>> unexpected EOF reading Barcelona.smx). In case, I review the Sky Matrix
>> with "wc" and I get almost the number that Greg suggested: wc Barcelona.smx
>> 20202874  60601692 213155298 Barcelona.smx I do not know what is the
>> problem with Sky Matrix (although it seems a little estrange 2306x8760 data
>> are in rows). Thank you in advance, Urtza. "Gregory J. Ward"
>> <gregoryjward at gmail.com <gregoryjward at gmail.com>> escribió:*
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>> *Following this up on the general mailing list...*
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>> *The problem was the one Andy pointed out earlier, where the newer
>> version of dctimestep doesn't want the "-n" option when the sky matrix has
>> a header.*
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>> *Regarding the new question (appearing below), using rmtxop in this way
>> is indeed the simplest means to convert RGB irradiance to illuminance in
>> lux.*
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>> *Cheers,*
>> *-Greg*
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>> *From: Humberto Antunes <hs.antunes at campus.fct.unl.pt
>> <hs.antunes at campus.fct.unl.pt>>*
>> *Subject: Re: dctimesteps*
>> *Date: March 20, 2016 6:04:36 PM PDT*
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>> *I tried to run the command like that and it worked just fine, i got the
>> same results as you did.*
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>> *I was running the dctimestep command with the -n 8760 option, but this
>> is not needed because the sky matrix already contains that info in the
>> header, running it like you solved the issue.*
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>> *Now there is just one thing remaining, to convert the RGB values from
>> illum.dat file to illuminance values can i use the command below or is
>> there a better way?*
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>> *rmtxop -c 47.435 119.93 11.635 results/illum.dat>
>> results/illum_final.dat*
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>> *Note:*
>> *179*0.265=47.436*
>> *179*0.670=119.93*
>> *179*0.065=11.635*
>>
>> *Best regards*
>> *Humberto A.*
>>
>> *2016-03-21 0:01 GMT+00:00 Gregory J. Ward <gregoryjward at gmail.com
>> <gregoryjward at gmail.com>>:*
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>>> *Thanks, Humberto.  I ran the following command:*
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>>> *dctimestep photocells.vmx singleclear.xml south.dmx lisboa.smx >
>>> illum.dat*
>>>
>>> *without complaint.  I am attaching the result.*
>>>
>>> *Are you sure you have a recent installation of dctimestep?  What do you
>>> see when you run dctimestep with no arguments?  You should get:*
>>>
>>> *Usage: dctimestep [-n nsteps][-o ospec][-i{f|d|h}][-o{f|d}] DCspec
>>> [skyf]*
>>> *   or: dctimestep [-n nsteps][-o ospec][-i{f|d|h}][-o{f|d}] Vspec Tbsdf
>>> Dmat.dat [skyf]*
>>>
>>> *Cheers,*
>>> *-Greg*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> *From: Greg Ward <gward at lmi.net <gward at lmi.net>>*
>>
>> *Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] sudo recontrib*
>>
>> *Date: March 20, 2016 2:47:23 PM PDT*
>>
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>> *Hi Humberto,*
>>
>> *Actually, your header and ASCII data look OK.  Although some tools would
>> put all the columns together in one humungous line with 8760x3, white space
>> has no meaning here and gendaymtx output has a newline for each column
>> entry with an extra empty line between rows.*
>>
>> *If you run the "wc" command on your file,  you should get something
>> like:*
>>
>> *20202873  60601692  xxxxxxxxxxx  lisboa.smx*
>>
>> *I don't know what xxxxxxx will be, but some large number corresponding
>> to the number of bytes in your file.  The first two values may not be
>> exactly this, but should be reasonably close.  Otherwise, your file really
>> is missing some data at the end.*
>>
>> *If your numbers agree roughly with the above, please send me a gzip'ped
>> copies of your lisboa.wea and the output (*.smx) file in a private e-mail
>> and I will see if I can figure out what is going on.*
>>
>> *Cheers,*
>> *-Greg*
>>
>> *From: Humberto Antunes <hs.antunes at campus.fct.unl.pt
>> <hs.antunes at campus.fct.unl.pt>>*
>>
>> *Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] sudo recontrib*
>>
>> *Date: March 20, 2016 2:30:23 PM PDT*
>>
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>> *Hi Urtza and Andy,*
>>
>> *I am having the same issue as you do Urtza, I have already checked the
>> headers of my view matrix, daylight matrix and sky matrix, and that doesn't
>> seem to be the problem, my view matrix is a 6X145, the daylight matrix a
>> 145X2306, and finally, the sky matrix is a 2306X8760, and this info is on
>> the headers of each.*
>>
>> *I think the problem is in the sky matrix file itself, it's not being
>> properly written.*
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>> *Mine looks like this:*
>> *#?RADIANCE*
>> *gendaymtx -m 4 weather/lisboa.wea*
>> *LATLONG= 38.73000000 -9.15000000*
>> *NROWS=2306*
>> *NCOLS=8760*
>> *NCOMP=3*
>> *FORMAT=ascii*
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>> *0 0 0*
>> *0 0 0*
>> *0 0 0*
>> *0 0 0*
>> *0 0 0*
>> *0 0 0*
>> *0 0 0*
>> *0.477 0.477 0.477*
>> *1.85 1.85 1.85*
>> *4.85 4.85 4.85*
>> *11.6 11.6 11.6*
>> *10.5 10.5 10.5*
>> *...*
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>> *So it doesn't have the number of columns it should, i think that each
>> row has the RGB value for one patch of one time step and it should have the
>> RGB values for all time steps of one patch, is that it?*
>>
>> *Best regards*
>> *Humberto A.*
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