This work reviews the effect of parametric programming on visual performance, daylighting and shading in office buildings in Tehran-Iran and studies their influences that help not only to reduce the glare but also to promote useful daylight illuminance through promoting visual comfort. It starts by establishing a review of the effective parameters on visual comfort indices, glare indices, and d...

Diffuse interreflections cause effects that make current theories of shape from shading unsatisfactory. We show that distant radiating surfaces produce radiosity effects at low spatial frequencies. This means that, if a shading pattern has a small region of support, unseen surfaces in the environment can only produce effects that vary slowly over the support region. It is therefore relatively e...

Photovoltaic array exhibits highly nonlinear electrical characteristics and the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) is always challenging. It becomes more complex during partial shading condition. The P-V array characteristics for shading condition have multiple maxima points and conventional MPPT technique fails to track global maximum power point. The operating point may settle at local point...

In this paper we propose cycle shading and hatched cycle shading as new local shading techniques for shape assessment and visualization. Natural surface highlights are extended to not only appear in isolated parts of a surface, but to reappear throughout the surface in a regular and easy-to-control pattern. Thereby even small surface variations become visible, wherever they are located on the s...

The automated analysis and classification of textured regions in color images is an active field of research in image processing and pattern recognition. However, most of the published algorithms require ideal imaging conditions with respect to homogenous illumination conditions or calibrated recording devices. In this work we propose a YUVbased shading correction technique applicable to color ...

Inspired by the idea of the S-Tree Coding (STC) and by extending the popular Gouraud shading approach, in this paper, we propose a new image representation method using the Nonoverlapping Non-symmetry and Antipacking Model (NNAM) for medical images, which is called the NNAM method. Also, a raster-first strategy for searching a rectangle subpattern in the NNAM method is put forward. During the p...

A challenge in vector graphics is to define primitives that offer flexible manipulation of colour gradients. We propose a new primitive, called a shading curve, that supports explicit and local gradient control. This is achieved by associating shading profiles to each side of the curve. These shading profiles, which can be manually manipulated, represent the colour gradient out from their assoc...

We present a novel architecture for flexible control of shading rates in a GPU pipeline, and demonstrate substantially reduced shading costs for various applications. We decouple shading and visibility by restricting and quantizing shading rates to a finite set of screen-aligned grids, leading to simpler and fewer changes to the GPU pipeline compared to alternative approaches. Our architecture ...