Correction Factor in Radiance

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Hello everyone. Could you please tell me if there is any crude valu in
Radiance, similar to other daylight prediction or simulation methods like
daylight factor correction values such as window cleanness or glass light
absorbance?
Thanks alot.

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Uh, what? Not sure what you are asking for here. You can calculate daylight factors in Radiance (for what they are worth), daylight coefficients, and all kinds of metrics. "Window cleanness" can be approximated by applying a factor the the transmissivity of the glazing, which is what Radiance expects as input. Glazing properties such as transmittance, reflectance, color and now even BSDFs can be derived from the Window6 program from LBNL.

Rob Guglielmetti IESNA, LEED AP

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Hi Sowgol, just as Rob wrote, just use the physical properties in your geometry and scene description. Radiance's basic unit is - surprise - radiance [W/m2sr]. If you want to derive photometric values from radiometric onces, you typically use a luminous efficacy of 179 in Radiance. Or you rely on its analysis tools doing the conversion for you such as pvalue, falsecolor. If glazing is not clean, I would expect transmission through it to get reduced plus extra scattering. It depends on you application whether scattering is of importance (e.g. a really dirty glazing exposed to direct sun may lead to glare). Reduced transmission may be accounted for by using it in you glass material definition (probably you should know the reduction, which would require measurements). Heavy scatter could(!) lead to using a different material type instead. An example: reduced transmission would make your window pane just appear darker when viewed. Increased scatter e.g. due to a layer of dust particles would make it appear brighter when viewed directly except sources directly visible, which would appear darker. In other terms, the scatter would distribute the bright spot of the source over a wider area. That would make it appear to have a bright film over the entire pane, while a perfectly clear glazing would be dark with the source directly seen appearing at its full brightness. The important thing to remember (always) is that there is no such thing as a correction factor in Radiance. It is all about physical units. If results appear to be wrong, do not multiply but find the source of error. Cheers, Lars.
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