Sites of Interest

Organisations

• Commission Internationale de l'Éclairage (CIE)
  Internation Commission on Illumination
• BRE
  The UK's Building Research Establishment
• IES
  Illumination Engineering Society of North America
• CIBSE UK, Society of Light & Lighting
  Successor to the CIBSE daylight group

Software

• European mirror of the RADIANCE web site
  A physically correct ray-tracer, but hard to use. Developed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, used by serious scientists.
• Office of Building Technology
  Software tools (free and commercial) for the energy efficiency of buildings
• Relux lighting calculation software
  Easy-to-use software the handles both, artificial light and daylight.

Reference

• MulCom
  A multimedia teaching package on visual, thermal, and acoustic comfort in buildings.
• Color Science
  Repository of websites on colour, vision, etc.
• Light measurement handbook by Alex Ryer
  Very nicely designed introduction into lighting, available in PDF format.
• The Joy of Visual Perception - A Web Book
  Everything on vision and perception with interesting interactive demonstrations.
• Daylighting at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Center for Building Science
  Introduction into daylighting as well as detailed HOWTOs.
• Passive Solar Design using Computer Generated Suncharts
  HOWTO on the use of suncharts
• Energy Design Resources
  Infos and software on skylights
• Daylighting Design
  On-line course at the University of Kansas

Resources

• Sun angle calculator
  Just like the one in DayMedia, but with tons of more features. In HTML format. Shareware.
  This site also hosts a sun postition calculator that outputs tables of solar angle data to be used in spreadsheets.
• Sun position calculator
  Java applet that calculates sun rise and sun set and draws nice maps on the screen.
• Sun or moon altitude/azimuth table for one day
  Create tables on-line, hosted by the U.S. Naval Observatory
• Latitude and longitude of world cities
  Or do you know the exact position of Calcutta? See.
• Satel-Light database
  Daylight availability in Europe. Creates animated GIF images.
• Renewable Resource Data Center (RReDC)
  Resources on solar radiation