Light redirecting devices usually increase the daylight illuminance level far from the window but also affect the visual comfort to some extent. Some designs achieve high redirection rate but are not transparent, others offer a partial view through but with reduced performance. Miniaturizing the light redirecting mirrors and encapsulating them has the potential to increase both view and perform...

Humans perceive daylit architecture as a rich and dynamic luminous composition and yet existing performance metrics most often evaluate natural light for its ability to provide adequate illumination to a two-dimensional task surface while avoiding glarebased visual discomfort. This rather limited taskdriven approach places a disproportionate emphasis on surface illumination and glare-based disc...

In this article, we present an investigation of possible improvement of the colour constant reflectance features that can be obtained from daylight illuminated scenes using pixel-level colour constancy algorithms (model-based algorithm: S Ratnasingam, S Collins, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 27, 286–294 (2010) and Projection-based algorithm: GD Finlayson, MS Drew, IEEE ICCV, 2001, pp. 473–480). Based on t...

Physically based image synthesis remains one of the most demanding tasks in the computer graphics field, whose applications have evolved along with the techniques in recent years, particularly with the decline in cost of powerful computing hardware. Physically based rendering is essentially a niche since it goes beyond the photorealistic look required by mainstream applications with the goal of...