Near-Field Photometry: A New Approach
Near-Field Photometry: A New Approach
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近场光度测定:一种新方法
DOI:
10.1080/00994480.1993.10748029
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发表时间:
1993
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I. Ashdown
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I. Ashdown
In" A Study of Near-Field Indirect Lighting Cal culations," Mistrick and English15 investigated the ability of lighting calculation programs to model ceiling luminances near an indirect luminaire. They concluded," The current calculation practice of utilizing far-field photometric data in near-field applications does not accurately model ceiling luminances near an indirect luminaire... to advance the state-of-the-art in lighting calculations, we must in vestigate alternative measurement and calculation procedures that would permit us to accurately model the near-field environment." There have been several attempts to develop such procedures. Stannard and Brass23 developed applica tion distance photometry, which models the luminaire as an equivalent point source. Franck4 and Lautzenheiser, et al. 10 modeled the luminaire as an array of point sources. Verbeck and Greenberg24 and Ngai18 examined the theoretical aspects of modeling the luminaire as an array of point sources, but did not offer any measurement procedures. Application distance photometry offers an approx imation of the near-field environment for specific planes of measurement. Bradford and Stannard2 and Ngai, et al. 19 demonstrated that the illuminance of planes between and parallel to those measured can be interpolated reasonably from the photometric data. However, these data cannot be extrapolated to planes that are tilted with respect to those measured or to any plane that intersects the luminaire volume. 16 Modeling the luminaire as an array of point sources requires that the luminous intensity distribution and spatial location of each source be known. The il luminance of a surface in the near-field environment can then be determined by using the inverse square law to calculate the luminous flux contribution of each source, Ngai18 demonstrated that the luminous intensity distribution of each infinitesimal point on the surface of a luminaire can be calculated if the luminance distribution function of each point is known. Unfor tunately, it is not possible to accurately measure these functions because we are limited to measuring the luminance of finite areas. If the surface is convex or concave, the area partially occludes itself at oblique angles, or is occluded by other parts of the luminaire.