POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.pov4.discussion.general: Feature Request: ldt and ies photometric sources support: Re: Feature Request: ldt and ies photometric sources support

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From: William F Pokorny
Date: 13 Oct 2018 08:30:44
Message: <5bc1e574$1@news.povray.org>

On 10/12/2018 11:48 PM, Alain wrote:
> Le 18-10-12 à 04:42, IGM a écrit :
>> Support to photometric point sources with intensity pattern defined in 
>> ldt
>> (eulumdat) and/or ies file. This files are supported in technical 
>> software
>> packages (like Dialux) for lighting rendering.
>>
>> See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EULUMDAT
>>
>> Thanks
>> igmar
>>
> 
> I think that it's in the to do list, but don't have any time frame for 
> the inclusion of the feature.
> At least, there are a few requests for the IES format, don't remember if 
> there where any for the LDT format.

Yes, there is an open github request. No recent work by anyone in this 
area to my knowledge. See:

https://github.com/POV-Ray/povray/issues/322

Bill P.

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