RadView

Radview is a viewer for radiance scenes. It is written in python using vtk and PyQt.

Features:

• Open Gl-rendering of scenes
• Treeviews which are combining materials and graphic display
• reads *.rif, *.rad, *.ort-files

Installation with Linux:
First install the required packages (as su):

• Suse Linux 10.2 or newer (standard installation)
• gcc (included at Suse Linux 10.2)
• python-numeric (included at Suse Linux 10.2)
• python-imaging (included at Suse Linux 10.2)
• radiance (http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/)
• polygon (Polygon-1.17-1.i586.rpm, precompiled version)
• scientific python (ScientificPython-2.6-1.i586.rpm, precompiled version)
• vtk (vtk-5.0.3-6.i586.rpm, precompiled version)
• vtk-python (vtk-python-5.0.3-6.i586.rpm, precompiled version)

Then install radview-0.4.2-1.noarch.rpm

Finally start the program simply by calling radview (the script is installed to /usr/local/)

For those who wants to build an own rpm-package, please download the source code here::
radview-0.4.2.tar.gz.

Future work:

• Dialog for camera settings
• Animation paths
• Better camera support
  • fisheye views
  • dialog for clipping planes and view angle
• Better support for materials
• Speed improvements by reimplementing parts of the code in C
• fixing bugs

Developer:
Andreas Gerber, 2008, e-mail Andreas Gerber