Since this is automatically an improvement over the existing shell scripts, I've gone ahead and checked your new objpict.pl and objview.pl into the CVS HEAD. I did a couple of checks to make sure they worked as advertised (finding a bug in rad in the process).
Many thanks, Axel! -Greg > From: Axel Jacobs <[email protected]> > Date: December 1, 2013 2:06:39 PM PST > > Dear list, > > this might be of interest to rad-openstudio, but I am refraining from > cross-posting. > > Whilst doing a bit of Radiance teaching last Friday, I got caught red-face in > my attempt to use objview.rb. Installing ruby.zip from the NREL web site (and > making sure %PATH% picks it up) did not help--objview.rb kept complaining > about missing input files. It appears that somehow, ARGV is completely > ignored by the parser once the options are dealt with. However, I know little > about Ruby. > > Since I need a working objview next Friday, I finished the re-write of > objview in Perl, which I started some time ago, but never polished off. > > Whilst at it, I also completed a Perl port of objpict.csh. > > Both appear to work under LINUX and Windows Vista. Zip archive with Windows > exe files is here: > http://www.jaloxa.eu/pickup/win_objpict_objview.zip > > Your feedback would be much appreciated. > > Since the Windows objview.rb has some extra functionality over the UNIX csh > version (namely ltview), I started work on a x-plat ltview.pl, but have I > admit that I'm not sure what it is meant to do: > > a) if ltview is meant to show the actual luminaire (or fixture for you > non-Europeans), then are not objview or objpict good enough? > > b) if, on the other hand, it is the actual photometric distribution that > matters, then would it not be better to extract the dat file of the > distribution, and suspend a little disk or square with that distribution > applied to it. The command line parser could then be extended to > - include an option that might cause it to put the disk inside a sphere > rather than a box; and/or > - render a -vta fisheye view from just below this disk, so that the entire > photometric distribution might be appreciated. > > I'm happy enough to look into this if it is felt that the Windows version of > objview and the 'official' one should be based on the same code. Would need > some guidance, though as to what ltview should do. > > Good night and good luck > > Axel > > PS: I'd love to call it 'iesview', but this name is already taken by an > add-on to AGI32. Works pretty well, actually (under Windows). > @Ian, we probably have to thank you for this little gem? > > > _______________________________________________ > Radiance-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.radiance-online.org/mailman/listinfo/radiance-dev _______________________________________________ Radiance-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.radiance-online.org/mailman/listinfo/radiance-dev
