BSDF display Direct to Hemispherical Solar Transmission

[Collin Robinson]

Hello,

Looking through some old papers, I've enjoyed Klems' graphics showing direct to hemispherical transmission, plotted on a circular field of view. It's a quick way to compare how different coatings and shadings affect solar heat gain. I love the BSDF viewer apps, and I can make the diagram manually from them. The old Window 6 Matrix Reader can do this from an XML file but in a less-preferred cartesian system. Is there something that can do this on a polar Klems patch diagram directly?

 V6 Reader Below:

Ideally I'd like this: Figure 18 below from Ward et al "Modeling Specular Transmission..." 2021

Thank you

Collin

[Jacob C. Jonsson (LBNL)]

The McNeil BSDF Viewer is available online at

https://www.ladybug.tools/bsdf-viewer/

or as app on

https://www.radiance-online.org/download-install/third-party-utilities/bsdf-viewer

Best,

Jacob

[Collin Robinson]

Hi Jacob, those apps are great for showing distribution of transmission or reflection, but what I'm looking for is something that reports the direct to hemispheric figure on each incoming patch. 

When I do it manually, looks like this: