Lighting Software

Posted on February 28, 2020

Legrand Acquires Lighting Manufacturer Focal Point

By Architectural Lighting Staff

This is the electrical and digital building infrastructure specialist's fifth... More

Tags: Legrand, Lighting Software, Focal Point, Mergers and Acquisitions, Architectural Lighting

Posted on January 02, 2020

Recent Advances in LED Technology

By Murrye Bernard

Improvements to solid state lighting have resulted in smaller, more versatile, and... More

Tags: Technology, Heather Dillon, OSRAM, Acclaim Lighting, Marc Dyble

Posted on April 12, 2016

Annual Daylighting Performance Metrics, Explained

By Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg, Alen Mahić

Adopted by the Illuminating Engineering Society, Spatial Daylight Autonomy and... More

Tags: Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), Lighting Design, Daylighting, Codes and Standards, Lighting Specifications

Posted on August 13, 2012

Ready, Set, Update

By Wanda Lau

Computer-aided design has elevated lighting design into a realm of automation and visualization that was unimaginable just a few decades ago. More

Tags: Bentley Systems, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, BIM, Lighting Software, Arup

Posted on November 21, 2008

Lighting Software Tools

By Jen Bickford

Lighting designers use software as a design tool to complement and contribute to the design process, for everything from complex calculations to presentation renderings. More

Tags: Lighting Design, Dave Speer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, BIM, Lighting Software

Posted on March 08, 2007

The Virtual Thing: Lighting Software Options

By Matt Franks

Lighting software differs from other modeling and 3D rendering programs in that it is physically based, and uses one or both of two methods for calculation: radiosity or raytracing. More

Tags: Lighting Design, 3D Technology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, BIM, Lighting Software

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