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- FINDGLARE(1) USER COMMANDS FINDGLARE(1)
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- NAME
- findglare - locate glare sources in a RADIANCE scene
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- SYNOPSIS
- findglare [ -v ][ -ga angles ][ -t threshold ][ -r resolu-
- tion ][ -c ][ -p picture ][ view options ] [[ rtrace options
- ] octree ]
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- DESCRIPTION
- Findglare locates sources of glare in a specific set of hor-
- izontal directions by computing luminance samples from a
- RADIANCE picture and/or octree. Findglare is intended pri-
- marily as a preprocessor for glare calculation programs such
- as glarendx(1), and is usually accessed through the execu-
- tive script glare(1).
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- If only an octree is given, findglare calls rtrace to com-
- pute the samples it needs. If both an octree and a picture
- are specified, findglare calls rtrace only for samples that
- are outside the frame of the picture. If findglare does not
- have an octree and the picture does not completely cover the
- area of interest, a warning will be issued and everything
- outside the picture will be treated as if it were black. It
- is preferable to use a picture with a fisheye view and a
- horizontal and vertical size of at least 180 degrees (more
- horizontally if the -ga option is used -- see below). Note
- that the picture file must contain correct view specifica-
- tions, as maintained by rpict(1), rview(1), pfilt(1) and
- pinterp(1). Specifically, findglare will not work on pic-
- tures processed by pcompos(1) or pcomb(1). It is also essen-
- tial to give the proper rtrace options when an octree is
- used so that the calculated luminance values are correct.
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- The output of findglare is a list of glare source direc-
- tions, solid angles and average luminances, plus a list of
- indirect vertical illuminance values as a function of angle.
- Angles are measured in degrees from the view center, with
- positive angles to the left and negative angles to the
- right.
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- By default, findglare only computes glare sources and
- indirect vertical illuminance for the given view (taken from
- the picture if none is specified). If the view direction is
- not horizontal to begin with (ie. perpendicular to the view
- up vector), findglare will substitute the closest horizontal
- direction as its view center. The -ga option can be used to
- specify a set of directions to consider about the center of
- view. This specification is given by a starting angle, end-
- ing angle, and step angle like so:
- start-end:step
- All angles must be whole degrees within the range 1 to 180.
- Multiple angle ranges may be separated by commas, and
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- individual angles may be given without the ending and step
- angles. Note that findglare will complain if the same angle
- is given twice either explicitly or implicitly by two
- ranges.
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- Findglare normally identifies glare sources as directions
- that are brighter than 7 times the average luminance level.
- It is possible to override this determination by giving an
- explicit luminance threshold with the -t option. It usually
- works best to use the 'l' command within ximage(1) to decide
- what this value should be. Alternatively, one can use the
- 't' command within rview(1). The idea is to pick a threshold
- that is well above the average level but smaller than the
- source areas.
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- If the sources in the scene are small, it may be necessary
- to increase the default sample resolution of findglare(1)
- using the -r option. The default resolution is 150 vertical
- samples and a proportional number of horizontal samples. If
- besides being small, the sources are not much brighter than
- the threshold, the -c flag should be used to override
- findglare's default action of absorbing small sources it
- deems to be insignificant.
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- The -v flag switches on verbose mode, where findglare
- reports its progress during the calculation.
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- EXAMPLE
- To calculate the glare sources in the image "scene.pic":
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- findglare -p scene.pic > scene.glr
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- To compute the Guth visual comfort probability from this
- result:
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- glarendx -t guth_vcp scene.glr
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- To compute the glare for a set of angles around the view
- "good.vp" from the octree "scene.oct" using an ambient level
- of .1:
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- findglare -vf good.vp -ga 10-60:10 -av .1 .1 .1 scene.oct
- > scene.glr
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- AUTHOR
- Greg Ward
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- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
- Work on this program was initiated and sponsored by the LESO
- group at EPFL in Switzerland.
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- SEE ALSO
- getinfo(1), glare(1), glarendx(1), pfilt(1), rpict(1),
- rtrace(1), rview(1), xglaresrc(1), ximage(1)
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