Week 8

     Trevor, George, and John aided Gabrielle in creating the code over the week. It now progresses through the day with both color and intensity. It begins with a dim red, progresses to green and then daylight blue, then goes back down to green and red, and fades to black. This mimics the light patterns of daylight. The only problem with the code is that the blue has a grid on it, which Kate and Gabrielle are working to debug.

The MATLAB code now cycles through a typical day, but the blue has a grid on it.

     During the lab, Kate debugged the MATLAB code by changing the transparency of blue from 1.0 to 0.9999. For some reason, a 1.0 transparency caused a grid to appear on the screen. 

The modified MATLAB code cycles through a typical day and does not display any grids.

     During the lab, Trevor and John worked with DIALux to create a simulation of the room that will have the light implemented. They will modify the room so that it displays a sunlight simulation.

A DIALux simulation of the floorplan.

     The room will be simulated so that it displays a typical daylight situation, not the full daylight-simulating code.

A 3D DIALux simulation of the room. The walls are beige, though they look yellow in this rendering.