A comprehensive overview
See also the whatis database.
Converters to Radiance
- ies2rad (1) - convert IES luminaire data to RADIANCE description
- mgf2meta (1) - convert Materials and Geometry Format file to Metafile graphics
- mgf2rad (1) - convert Materials and Geometry Format file to RADIANCE description
- obj2rad (1) - convert Wavefront .obj file to RADIANCE description
- obj2mesh (1) - create a compiled RADIANCE mesh file from Wavefront .OBJ input
- tmesh2rad (1) - convert a triangular mesh to a RADIANCE scene description
Radiance geometry generators
- genblinds (1) - generate a RADIANCE description of venetian blinds
- genbox (1) - generate a RADIANCE description of a box
- genBSDF (1) -generate BSDF description from Radiance or MGF input
- genclock (1) - generate a RADIANCE description of a clock
- genprism (1) - generate a RADIANCE description of a prism
- genrev (1) - generate a RADIANCE description of surface of revolution
- gensky (1) - generate a RADIANCE description of the sky
- gensurf (1) - generate a RADIANCE description of a curved surface
- genworm (1) - generate a RADIANCE description of a functional worm
- pkgBSDF (1) - package BSDFs provided as XML for Radiance
Scene preparation / processing
- xform (1) - transform a RADIANCE scene description
- rcalc (1) - record calculator
- icalc (1) - interactive calculator
- cnt (1) - index counter
- macbethcal (1) - compute color compensation based on measured Macbeth chart
- lampcolor (1) - compute spectral radiance for diffuse emitter
- ev (1) - evaluate expressions
- neat (1) - neaten up output columns
- tabfunc (1) - convert table to functions for rcalc, etc.
- total (1) - sum up columns
- vwright (1) - normalize a RADIANCE view, shift it to the right
- replmarks (1) - replace triangular markers in a RADIANCE scene description
- rlam (1) - laminate records from multiple files
- pmblur (1) - generate views for camera motion blurring
- pmdblur (1) - generate views for combined camera motion and depth blurring
- pdfblur (1) - generate views for depth-of-field blurring
- vwrays (1) - compute rays for a given picture or view
- oconv (1) - create an octree from a RADIANCE scene description
- getbbox (1) - compute bounding box for RADIANCE scene
- mkillum (1) - compute illum sources for a RADIANCE scene
- compamb (1) - compute good ambient value for a rad input file
- raddepend (1) - find RADIANCE scene dependencies
- objview (1) - view RADIANCE object(s)
- lookamb (1) - examine ambient file values
- rhcopy - copy ray information into a holodeck
- rhoptimize - optimize beam locations in holodeck file
Rendering
User interface
- rad (1) - render a RADIANCE scene
- trad (1) - graphical user interface to Radiance rad(1) program
- lampcolor (1) - compute spectral radiance for diffuse emitter
- dayfact (1) - compute illuminance and daylight factor on workplane
- glare (1) - perform glare and visual comfort calculations
- getinfo (1) - get header information from a RADIANCE file
- xshowtrace (1) - interactively show rays traced on RADIANCE image under X11
Viewing output
Daylight Coefficients for Annual Simulation
- genklemsamp (1) - generate ray samples over surfaces using Klems BSDF basis
- genskyvec (1) - compute patch radiance averages for a specific sky
- dctimestep (1) - compute annual simulation time-step via matrix multiplication
Analyze and Convolve
Converters from Radiance
- rad2mgf (1) - convert RADIANCE scene description to Materials and Geometry Format
- ra_gif (1) - convert RADIANCE picture to Compuserve GIF
- ra_bmp (1) - convert RADIANCE picture to/from Windows BMP image
- ra_pict (1) - convert Radiance pictures to Macintosh PICT files
- ra_ppm (1) - convert RADIANCE picture to/from a Poskanzer Portable Pixmap
- ra_ps (1) - convert RADIANCE picture to a PostScript file
- ra_rgbe (1) - change run-length encoding of a RADIANCE picture
- ra_t16 (1) - convert RADIANCE picture to/from Targa 16 or 24-bit image file
- ra_t8 (1) - convert RADIANCE picture to/from Targa 8-bit image file
- ra_tiff (1) - convert RADIANCE picture to/from a TIFF color or greyscale image
- ra_xyze (1) - convert between RADIANCE RGBE and XYZE formats
- ran2tiff - expose and convert a RADIANCE animation to TIFF frames
- normtiff - tone-map and convert RADIANCE picture or SGILOG TIFF to RGB TIFF
Other output
Metafile tools
Markup created August 08, 1997, patrick@arch.ethz.ch.