Lighting Simulation Laboratory: A Networked/Distributed Computing Facility for Design Decision Making

照明模拟实验室：用于设计决策的网络/分布式计算设施

• 批准号: 9851308
• 负责人: Murali Paranandi
• 金额: $ 3.7万
• 依托单位: Miami University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-09-01 至 2000-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9851308&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Lighting; Simulation; Laboratory; Networked; Distributed

This project is to develop a "lighting simulation laboratory" to facilitate interactive, project- oriented learning of principles of design, evaluation, and analysis of visual and qualitative aspects of the built environment for undergraduate students of architecture and interior design. It provides opportunities to apply advanced visual computing technologies iteratively and fluidly for creative design. We propose to use Radiosity-based visualization techniques on high-end desk-top computers to predict lighting performance in built spaces as a basis for design decisions. Radiosity represents a fundamental advance in computer graphic technology because it allows accurate simulations based on the physical characteristics of light and materials. The proposed lighting simulation laboratory will augment the current facilities in our Architecture Design and Visualization Laboratory (ADVisLab), funded in part by a prior ILI-IP grant from NSF, by utilizing high-end desktop computers to facilitate visual engineering approaches to design. The added capabilities brought by this laboratory setup will enable our undergraduate students to do what they cannot do with other existing software programs or physical modeling alternatives: to visualize their lighting designs scientificallv and accuratelv rather than illustrating desired lighting effects intuitively without a sound photometric basis. This project will have a direct and profound effect on the learning experiences of beginning undergraduate students in the department by incorporating advanced technologies in introducing fundamental skills of design representation and exploration (80 students per year) at the introductory level. It will also have a broader curriculum-wide effect by enriching the learning experiences of upper-level students by allowing them to achieve proficiency in the use advanced technologies through CAAD studios (30 students per year) and technology electives (about 60 students per year). This facility will al so be used during summer semester by Miami University's undergraduate research scholars, as well as area minority high school students. The equipment will include fifteen networked high-end desktop computers with appropriate software and peripherals for lighting simulation.

本项目旨在开发一个“照明模拟实验室”，以促进互动，项目- 面向建筑和室内设计本科生的设计原则，评估和建筑环境的视觉和定性方面的分析。它提供了将先进的视觉计算技术迭代地、流畅地应用于创意设计的机会。我们建议在高端台式计算机上使用基于辐射度的可视化技术来预测建筑空间的照明性能，作为设计决策的基础。光能传递代表了计算机图形技术的根本进步，因为它允许基于光和材料的物理特性进行精确的模拟。拟建的照明模拟实验室将利用高端台式计算机来促进视觉工程设计方法，以增强我们建筑设计和可视化实验室（ADVisLab）的现有设施，该实验室的部分资金来自NSF之前的ILI-IP拨款。这个实验室设置带来的额外功能将使我们的本科生能够做他们无法用其他现有软件程序或物理建模替代方案做的事情：科学且准确地可视化他们的照明设计，而不是在没有健全的光度基础的情况下直观地说明所需的照明效果。该项目将通过在入门级引入设计表示和探索的基本技能（每年80名学生）中引入先进技术，对该部门开始本科生的学习经验产生直接而深刻的影响。它还将通过丰富高年级学生的学习经验，使他们能够通过CAAD工作室（每年30名学生）和技术选修课（每年约60名学生）熟练使用先进技术，从而产生更广泛的全学院影响。这个设施也将在夏季学期由迈阿密大学的本科研究学者，以及地区少数民族高中学生使用。该设备将包括15台联网的高端台式计算机，配有用于照明模拟的适当软件和外围设备。