Thanks, Greg,
I am humbled by your faith in my apprentice Perl wizardry. The proof of
the pudding will be this Friday, when I'm giving another Radiance class.
I'll let you know if things do not go according to plan.
Best
Axel
On 04/12/13 20:09, Gregory J. Ward wrote:
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?
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