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Daylight Science and Daylighting Technology
Sunlight profoundly influences the Earth's atmosphere and biosphere. Nature fuels the evolution of all living things, their visual systems, and the manner in which they adapt, accommodate, and habituate. Sun luminance measurements serve as data to calculate typical changes in the daily, monthly...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , , |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2012. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Short historical review of daylight utilisation by living creatures
- Daylight photometry: history, principles and empirical development
- Propagation of light in the atmospheric environment
- Sky luminance characteristics
- Possibilities to simulate year-round changes of the local daylight climate
- Fundamental principles for daylight calculation methods
- Analytical calculation methods and tools for the design of un-glazed apertures
- Daylight methods and tools to design glazed windows and skylights
- Modelling daylight distribution in complex architectural spaces
- The neurophysiology and psychophysics of visual perception
- Discomfort and disability glare in the visual environment
- Index.