Glare from a high-reflective tower facade
I would like to examine which parts of a high-reflective tower facade contribute to glare in rooms across the tower. Some patches of the facade reflect sunlight at different times of the day and cause glare in different rooms across the tower. Can I assign these patches (surfaces) a light source using the rcontrib or possibly using mkillumor what would be the best practice to do this?
Deleted a series of steps that are not right.
Another thought:
I already created an array of views from the opposite building, below is a link to one HDR view!
In the HDR image (below), the purple area is the source of glare (please correct me if I'm wrong), so all the facade panels covered in purple are offending my view. Shouldn't this be enough to answer my question?
if I can overlay this image with my geometry (I'll use Matlab for that) I will be able to determine exactly where the offending panels are!
Image herehttps://static.wixstatic.com/media/07...
I think there are many missteps in the above. First of all, it doesn't seem that you know what you are trying to calculate. It is difficult to help you with this, but I would guess that you want something more like views from the opposite building if you want to know the glare contributions from different parts of the facade. For example, you might have an array of views looking through the opposite building's windows or from its surface towards the offending building facade. Your current array of surface irradiances is not useful.
You are right, I don't know what I'm doing. I'm completely lost here. I'll keep working on this and try to figure what the best solution is! Thank you so much for trying to help me though!
As discussed earlier, it is best to use a single modifier and the bin expression for a more efficient calculation. You can use your original material as an alternate modifier to the mirror primitive, but you need to figure out the average specular reflection amount. (See Radiance reference manual.) Is there someone more experienced who can help you first-hand? Doing this over Unmet Hours is nigh impossible, and the resulting post is a mess.
If a series of views give you the information you are after, that is certainly an easier approach!