This page contains links to World Wide Web sites of interest
to Radiance users. The information is divided into the following
categories:
Interest groups and Websites about RADIANCE.
These studies and reference papers provide additional RADIANCE information.
- NIST Conference Room Comparison
- Real and Synthetic Image Comparison and Validation generated at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). (US)
- NRC-IRC Lighting Quality in Design
- The National Research Council (NRC) Institute for Research in Construction (IRC) investigated the effects of lighting quality on office task performance. (Canada)
- Radiance Reference Manual in French
- Provided by Jean-Louis Maltret of Gamsau's Ecoled'Architecture de Marseille. (France)
- Simon Crone's Radiance Home Page
- Contains Radiance function files, selected scanned materials, a Radiance gallery, inline images, and several thesis papers. Curtin University of Technology, Perth (Australia)
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These companies use Radiance software to provide services to their clients.
- Artifex Home Page
- Artifex is a research and design studio exploring applications in 3d visualization, animation, and World Wide Web Communications. (Bloomington, IN)
- Artifice, Inc. makers of DesignWorkshop.
- DesignWorkshop is a Macintosh and Windows modeling application which exports to Radiance and is closely linked to a version of Radiance which runs under MachTen on the Apple PowerMac. This site also features a gallery of images.
- Fraunhofer ISE Radiance Page
- Radiance raytracing software is used at Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) mainly for daylighting calculations. (Germany)
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Rayfront by Georg Mischler
- Rayfront is a full graphical user interface to Radiance for
daylighting and electrical lighting designers, supporting
Windows, Linux, Irix, and Solaris. It can be run as an AutoCAD
or IntelliCAD application, or as a stand alone program that
imports DXF geometry data. (Germany)
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3D Lighting by ALware
- The planning tool 3D Lighting is designed for the early design phase of buildings. It integrates the software 3Dsolar with Rayfront and Radiance. 3Dsolar offers fast input and easy modification of 3D geometries, as well as optimized export to Rayfront. Simulation results can be analysed and documented in side-to-side comparison of variations. Supported platforms are Windows and Linux (Germany).
- NASA Graphics Research and Analysis Facility (GRAF)
- The Flight Crew Support Division at the NASA Johnson Space Center uses Radiance to prepare for complex maneuvers with the space shuttle. Go to the "Lighting Analysis" page for some stunning comparisons between actual photographs and simulated images.
- Robert Kay's Radiance page with Macintosh advice
- Robert has posted some rendered images of objects on the web. He has had success using Radiance on PowerPCs, and shows that Radiance can do more than just architectural renderings. (Bergdesign, TX)
- VisArc Architectural Visualization
- This company provides a range of image-based products to facilitate the communication of architectural intention in the design process. (Charlestown, MA)
- Open Entry Technical Light Design
- OpenEntry offers physically correct simulation of light, technical light design and visualization of 3D models. Their goal is to be able to perform physically correct lighting simulation of any 3D model and to evaluate the results.
Radiance has been put to the test by university students and departments worldwide.
- Implementation of Radiance picture i/o routines
- Information about the RGBE file format from Bruce Walter. (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)
- Low Energy Architecture Research Unit
- The Low Energy Architecture Research Unit (LEARN) was created in 1987 to bridge the gap between architecture and research in low energy design. Research focuses on the efficient use of energy and its conservation in building design. (University of North London)
- LEARNIX, also from the Low Energy Architecture Research Unit...
- LEARNIX is flavor of KNOPPIX which is flavor of GNU/LINUX with RADIANCE and ESP-r for building simulations included. LEARNIX enables users to run RADIANCE and ESP-r on their machines without having to install UNIX or LINUX.
- Martin Centre, University of Cambridge, Department of Architecture
- Daylight simulation, comparison of software, and visualisation techniques including animation and QTVR. Examples of projects modeled with Desktop Radiance. (Click on the link called Lighting )
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The Energy Systems Research Unit (ESRU)
at the University of Strathclyde
- Authors of whole building simulation
software ESP, and ESP-r, the Radiance-based
addition for lighting simulation.
- Materials and Geometry file format (MGF)
- MGF is a least common denominator language for describing scenes and objects.
- Radiance at the Design Integration Laboratory
- Radiance images, student and research projects, support and reference materials, and a tutorial at the Architecture Department of the University of Oregon.
- Radiance Studies and Validation by John Mardaljevic
- John's projects for the Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development validate the use of radiance software for real sky conditions (De Montfort University, UK).
- Theatre Computer Visualization Center
- The mission of the lab is to research and develop computer based collaborative and design tools which will enhance live performance and the Theatre Arts. (Indiana University).
Radiance has had wide spread applications both theoretically and geographically.
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