Announcing official Radiance 5.0 release
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It's been over a year since the last official release, and 5 years since the last major one. The biggest change is the addition of Roland Schregle's photon-mapping code, whose integration was sponsored and coordinated by the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Competence Centre Envelopes and Solar Energy (www.hslu.ch/ccease) in collaboration with the US Dept. of Energy. Special thanks to Roland himself, Stephen Wittkopf, Lars Grobe, David Geisler-Moroder, and to Amir Roth, who covered my part in the final push.
Another significant addition/incorporation in 5.0 is Jan Wienold's evalglare tool, which he provided right before this year's workshop. I would also like to thank Eleanor Lee (as always) for her ongoing support and management of Radiance development at LBNL.
Mac Os Download
The new release will be available from the following link, together with Mac OS X binaries (which hopefully work under Yosemite as well):
NREL will post Radiance 5.0 binaries for Windows (32- and 64-bit), Mac (64-bit) and Linux (64-bit) on the NREL Radiance GitGub mirror, here:
Mac Os Download
The new release will be available from the following link, together with Mac OS X binaries (which hopefully work under Yosemite as well):
NREL will post Radiance 5.0 binaries for Windows (32- and 64-bit), Mac (64-bit) and Linux (64-bit) on the NREL Radiance GitGub mirror, here:
A number of important fixes and features come in addition to the photon map. King under the mountain mac os. Below are a few highlights.
Altered worlds mac os. Cheers,
-Greg (Ward)
- Created wrapBSDF tool and incorporated into genBSDF along with new rfluxmtx computation.
- Added left-hand coordinate sytems to rfluxmtx to correct problems with coordinate axis orientations pointed out by David Geisler-Moroder.
- Added color output to genBSDF (+C option) and support for color rendering of Klems and tensor tree data.
- Fixed bug discovered by Jacob Jonsson in Klems BSDF interpolator that caused it to over-predict normal transmittance and reflectance.
- Added ability to read input from commands in dctimestep and rmtxop.
- Added photon map support to rad. Fixed some double-counting issues in photon-mapping spotted by David Geisler-Moroder.
- Added photon map support to trad.
- Prompted by Roland S., added option to have pcompos -a order rows from top rather than bottom of image.
- Changed dctimestep to accept matrix as well as BTDF input in the VTDs invocation mode. This permits the output of rmtxop to be used in a pinch when combining multiple BTDF layers, although interreflection between layers is not accounted for properly as it is in the WINDOW program.
- Added Jan Wienold et al.'s evalglare to distribution.
- Hopeful fix to deadlock issue under Mac OS X 10.10.x (Yosemite).
The following table lists software packages with their own article on Wikipedia that are nominal EM (electromagnetic) simulators;
Name | License | Windows | Linux | 3D | GUI | Convergence detector | Mesher | Algorithm | Area of application |
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NEC | open source | Yes | Yes | Yes | In some distributions | Yes | manual | MoM | Antenna modeling, especially in Amateur Radio. Widely used as the basis for many GUI-based programs on many platforms (including popular distributions such as 4nec2 and EZnec on Windows, xnec2c on Linux, and cocoaNEC for Mac OS X). Version 2 is open source, but Versions 3 and 4 are commercially licensed. |
Momentum | commercial | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | equidistant | MoM | For passive planar elements development, integrated into Keysight EEsofAdvanced Design System. |
HFSS | commercial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Automatic adaptive | FEMFDTD PO Hybrid FEBI MoM Eigen Mode | For antenna/filter/IC packages, Radome,RFIC,LTCC,MMIC,Antenna Placement,Wave guides, EMI,FSS,Metamaterial,Composite Material, RCS-Mono and Bi development. |
XFdtd | commercial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Automatic Project Optimized | FDTD | RF and microwave antennas, components, and systems, including mobile devices. MRI coils, radar, waveguides, SAR validation. |
AWR Axiem | commercial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Automatic, Hybrid | MoM | PCBs, Multi-Layer PCBs, LTCC, HTCC, On-Chip Passives, Printed Antennas. Integrated into Microwave Office |
AWR Analyst | commercial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Automatic and Adaptive | FEM | 3D structurers(including 3D Antennas), Waveguides, 3D filters, PCBs, Multi-Layer PCBs, LTCC, HTCC, On-Chip Passives, Printed Antennas. Integrated into Microwave Office |
JCMsuite | commercial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Automatic, error-controlled | FEM | Nano- and micro-photonic applications (light scattering,[1] waveguide modes,[2] optical resonances[3]). |
COMSOL Multiphysics | commercial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Automatic | FEM, Boundary element method, Ray Tracing | General Purpose |
FEKO | commercial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Automatic or manual; adaptive | For antenna analysis, antenna placement, windscreen antennas, microstrip circuits, waveguide structures, radomes, EMI, cable coupling, FSS, metamaterials, periodic structures, RFID | |
Elmer FEM | open source (GPL) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | manual, or can import other mesh formats | FEM | General Purpose, includes 2D and 3D magnetics solvers, both static and harmonic. 3D solver is based on the Whitney AV formulation of Maxwell's equations. |
References[edit]
- ^Hoffmann, J.; et al. (2009). Bosse, Harald; Bodermann, Bernd; Silver, Richard M (eds.). 'Comparison of electromagnetic field solvers for the 3D analysis of plasmonic nano antennas'. Proc. SPIE. Modeling Aspects in Optical Metrology II. 7390: 73900J. arXiv:0907.3570. Bibcode:2009SPIE.7390E.0JH. doi:10.1117/12.828036. S2CID54741011.
- ^Wong, G. K. L.; et al. (2012). 'Excitation of Orbital Angular Momentum Resonances in Helically Twisted Photonic Crystal Fiber'. Science. 337 (6093): 446–449. Bibcode:2012Sci..337.446W. doi:10.1126/science.1223824. PMID22837523. S2CID206542221.
- ^Maes, B.; et al. (2013). 'Simulations of high-Q optical nanocavities with a gradual 1D bandgap'. Opt. Express. 21 (6): 6794–806. Bibcode:2013OExpr.21.6794M. doi:10.1364/OE.21.006794. hdl:1854/LU-4243856. PMID23546062.