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“New Tools for Easy and Accurate Simulation of Complex Daylighting” by Henrik Wann Jensen

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Channel: The VELUX Group · 2015 · Science & Technology

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Lecture from the 6th VELUX Daylight Symposium “Daylight as a driver of change” that took place in London on 2-3 September 2015. For more information visit http://thedaylightsite.com

ABSTRACT

In this talk he demonstrated the new capabilities of the Velux Daylight Visualizer and show how it enables accurate and fast simulations of complex daylighting including light pipes. He also described how models from the Daylight Visualizer can be exported to KeyShot in order to create photorealistic images of a 3D model with an accurate representation of both daylighting and electrical lighting from IES lights. In effect these two tools makes it easy and fast to both simulate and visualize complex (day) lighting in architectural models.

Henrik Wann Jensen is the Chief Scientist at Luxion - makers of KeyShot, and he is a professor at the University of California at San Diego, where he is working in the computer graphics lab. His research is focused on realistic image synthesis, global illumination, rendering of natural phenomena, and appearance modeling. His contributions to computer graphics include the photon mapping algorithm for global illumination, and the first technique for efficiently simulating subsurface scattering in translucent materials. He is the author of “Realistic Image Synthesis using Photon Mapping,” AK Peters 2001.

He has rendered images that have appeared on the frontcovers of the National Geographic Magazine and the SIGGRAPH proceedings. He previ ously worked at Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Weta, Pixar, and at mental images. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Technical University of Denmark. He is the recipient of an Academy Award (Technical Achievement Award) from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for pioneering research in rendering translucent materials. He also received a Sloan Fellowship, and was selected as one of the top 10 scientists by Popular Science magazine.

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