Hi, is there anyone already worked with retro-reflective materials? We want to simulate them however, I assume that energy plus (simulation engine) considers only specular reflection and thus thinking if there is anything else that I'm missing when creating a retroflecting radiance material. Thank you for your time! Maria
If you have a function describing the retroreflective behavior of your material, i.e., a BRDF, then you can use this function with bsdf2klems or bsdf2ttree to create an XML file that Radiance can use in its simulations. For example, here is a command to create a retroreflective material with a Gaussian lobe:
bsdf2ttree -t3 +for +back -e 'R:.75;S:.05' -e 'Gauss(u2):exp(-u2/(2*S*S))/(2*PI*S*S)' -e 'retro(ix,iy,iz,ox,oy,oz)=if(iz*oz,R*Gauss(1-(ix*ox+iy*oy+iz*oz)^2),0)' retro > retro.xml
To vary the total reflection, change the R constant. To vary the width of the lobe, change the S constant, which is in radians. (Note that single-quotes must be replaced by double-quotes if you are running under Windows.) The Radiance BSDF material is then used to apply this during simulation.
I hope this is enough to get you started.
Best, -Greg
Asked: 2023-07-24 15:05:57 -0500
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