I never really thought about the need for engineers in determining how many light fixtures like this one might be needed in determining the amount of light in a room (for some reason this slipped my mind, but thinking about it now it definitely makes sense haha). Are there tools that generate diagrams that describe lighting and efficacy on the right, or are these generally pretty experimental?
jinweiwong
I find it interesting that optical engineers can engineer their light sources to spread out semi-uniformly to create ambient lighting in the room. On the other end of the spectrum, I imagine that if we were to focus all the light onto a single narrow ray, you could amplify the light's intensity by getting something like a laser.
caelinsutch
How can the goniometric data from a real-world light fixture like the Artichoke Lamp be integrated into a lighting model to achieve realistic lighting virtually? Is it normal to model this as a complex multi dimensional surface, or use some sort of texturing or other way to simplify the representation?
diandestroyer
@caelinsutch
I personally do not see a scenario where it would be needed to get such a high definition lighting model for a specific fancy lamp that would warrant the computationally complex multi dimensional surface model. So to me it would make sense to me to simplify the model which would probably be along the lines of precomputing or sampling the goniometric data and mapping it onto the lamp geometry.
I never really thought about the need for engineers in determining how many light fixtures like this one might be needed in determining the amount of light in a room (for some reason this slipped my mind, but thinking about it now it definitely makes sense haha). Are there tools that generate diagrams that describe lighting and efficacy on the right, or are these generally pretty experimental?
I find it interesting that optical engineers can engineer their light sources to spread out semi-uniformly to create ambient lighting in the room. On the other end of the spectrum, I imagine that if we were to focus all the light onto a single narrow ray, you could amplify the light's intensity by getting something like a laser.
How can the goniometric data from a real-world light fixture like the Artichoke Lamp be integrated into a lighting model to achieve realistic lighting virtually? Is it normal to model this as a complex multi dimensional surface, or use some sort of texturing or other way to simplify the representation?
@caelinsutch I personally do not see a scenario where it would be needed to get such a high definition lighting model for a specific fancy lamp that would warrant the computationally complex multi dimensional surface model. So to me it would make sense to me to simplify the model which would probably be along the lines of precomputing or sampling the goniometric data and mapping it onto the lamp geometry.