Radiance Control Panel
A front-end to the Radiance Synthetic Imaging System developed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories. It is an excellent public domain command-line tool for radiosity-based lighting simulation. The role of The Radiance Control Panel is simply to automate some of the more mundane tasks when using Radiance, once a model has been created.
Keywords
radiance, lighting, daylighting, ray tracing, glare
Validation/Testing
N/A
Expertise Required
Compared to what you need to run Radiance... "High level of computer literacy required; 4 days training, minimum" ... very little expertise required.
Users
Over 200 users worldwide
Audience
Architects, lighting engineers & building designers.
Input
Reads Radiance Instruction Files (.RIF) and Radiance Model Data(.RAD) files.
Output
Saves .RIF files as well as DOS Batch (.BAT) files to control the Radiance run.
Computer Platform
Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000 & XP
Programming Language
C++
Strengths
Automates some of the more mundane tasks required to generate Radiance images. Can be used with very little knowledge of Radiance.
Weaknesses
No help file at this stage. Desktop Radiance must already be installed.
Contact
Company: |
C/O Centre for Research in the Built Environment |
Address: |
Cardiff University |
Telephone: |
+44 (29) 2087 5977 |
Facsimile: |
+44 (29) 2087 4623 |
E-mail: |
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Website: |
Availability
Free, go to FREE STUFF > FREEWARE > Radiance Control Panel in the main menu of the Square One web site to download.