Radiance trans material

Hi
How can I make a translucent material in radiance? I want to make a fabric of ptfe material and I just have some information about visual light transmittance and openness factor of this material.

@bahar-m hello,

please use a profile picture.

have a look here Import a material from Radiance library in Honeybee[+] and BRTDfunc material

or update HB+ and Mostapha put out a new component for translucent materials.

also have a look at @mostapha 's paper on image-mapping for openness here : ETFE Radiance material reference

Good luck,

It is not me. It is added by @PeterZatko. :clap:

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@bahar-m,

I think your question is more related to the thing, how to set properly the material definition in radiance if you have just a few values from the manufacturer right ?

If yes, that´s not an easy thing, please read this https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/231231/ document, it will bring more light to it.

as a summary, it´s not as easy as we thought :smiley:

Best
Peter Z

sure. thank you kindly

yes, that was I wanted to say, this paper is so helpful.
thanks alot.:slightly_smiling_face: