What is less often considered is the nature of the spectral microclimate, i.e. The internal human body clock requires environmental cues to synchronise to the day/night solar cycle on a regular basis so as to avoid imbalances in the circadian system that have been shown to have negative health and well-being consequences.Ī considerable body of research is now providing insights to the many potential implications of good and bad lighting design decisions, but much of this has focused on visual physiology and non-image forming (NIF) issues. The primary environmental stimulus to this system is light exposure to the eye. Published research on circadian physiology has demonstrated that the impact of light on the human circadian system depends on its intensity, spectrum, spatial distribution, timing, duration, pattern and photic history. The human circadian system is known to be responsible for the temporal regulation, over approximately 24 hours, of a range of physiological processes and drives the rhythms of body temperature, hormone secretion and metabolism. The discovery of the intrinsically photosensitive Retina Ganglion Cell (ipRGC) and subsequent findings suggest a much wider role for daylight in delivering healthy buildings. Today, daylight design is trans-disciplinary and must not only consider energy performance, visual task and comfort but also matters of health and well-being. Daylight, its availability and spectral characteristics have recently taken a more prominent role in design. It is therefore imperative that their health and well-being is considered a priority in architectural design. Materials associated with this article may be downloaded from Today, people spend 90% or more of their lives indoors. Generating XYZ stimuli has the added advantage of making stimulus images independent of display devices and, thereby, facilitating the process of reproducing results across different labs. Here, we present a method for spectral rendering with RADIANCE to generate hyperspectral images that can be converted to XYZ images (CIE 1931 system) and then to machine-dependent RGB images. We have shown previously that RADIANCE's simulation accuracy is greatly improved when color is coded by spectra, rather than by the originally envisaged RGB triplets (Ruppertsberg & Bloj, 2006). RADIANCE (Ward, 1994), however, is freely available and popular in the visual perception community, making it a prime candidate. The number of computer graphic packages that simulate the physical interaction of light and surfaces is limited, and mostly they require the purchase of a license.
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