Thesis (M.S.)--Humboldt State University, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 168-172). Also available via Humboldt Digital Scholar.

This thesis represents the written documentation and evaluation of the lighting design for the Southern Illinois University Carbondale Department of Theater's production of Ken Ludwig's musical Crazy for You. It was produced on the McLeod Theater stage in October of 2010. The first chapter lays out my personal and artistic goals for the project, as well as my initial plan for the design process. The second chapter discusses my analysis of the text and my further research into the text, dance and musical styles found within the work. It includes a scene breakdown, a character breakdown, discussion of the theme, and use of metaphor in our production. The third chapter shines light on my design process and collaboration with the director and other designers. The final chapter is a self-evaluation of my design process and an assessment of the design and its implementation. It details my successes and shortfalls on the project and their implications for my future work as an artist and designer. The appendices of this document include the essential paperwork, and light plot.

This paper discuss the design and realisation of intelligent lighting system for home automation. Identifying the most adequate solution of system implementation is followed by choosing suitable components, design of electrical circuits and printed circuit boards. The project then deals with development of software for each particular device in the system and development of computer application for managing the system. The paper also treats with mechanical design and construction of devices in the system.

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Call number: LD2668 .T4 1979 S264 / Master of Science

Daylight is present in tropical regions in a considerable intensity throughout the year. The sky characteristics are changeable and sunlight cannot be disregarded. Daylighting techniques are still wanted to answer particular tropical features. The main aim of this thesis is to present a daylighting analysis tool for the tropics developed out of existing procedures. It is structured in three parts. The first part provides a broad view of climatic aspects related to daylighting studies in a typical tropical city - Maceiö, Brazil. A brief climatic description of the city and a study relating climate and building are followed by a literature review of climatic fundamentals. A study is made of meteorological station measurements in relation to the city and a field investigation is described. These lead to a simplified method for sky type selection. It shows that a reasonable assumption about daylight climate can be made from very simple data and that new structure of CIE standard general sky could be applied everywhere. The second part investigates methods that could be appropriated for calculating daylighting in humid climates and concludes with a methodology based on an adaptation of existing techniques. The Monte Carlo and ray tracing techniques are reviewed, as well as the daylight coefficients concept. These are incorporated in prototype software, TropLux, written in MATLAB code. The development of the method in this thesis can be seen as an extension of the daylight factor concept to the CIE Standard General Sky and reflected sunlight. The software validation is done and results show that the level of prediction is comparable with those produced by Radiance and overall the results appear to be robust. Analysis indicates that it is not essential to have climate-specific calculation technique. Universal lighting software is viable, providing the local climate and architectural characteristics are taken into account. The last part applies TropLux to ground-reflected light. It is found that the influence of reflected sunlight on interior illuminance can be very large. Among shading devices analysed, overhang has shown the best performance. There is a key zone of ground outside window that provides the majority of the reflected light. A direct design implication can be the reduction of window size.

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The latter half of the 20th century saw the development of lightweight tensioned translucent membranes as shading devices and their increasing use in providing daylight and daylight control. Buildings with high lighting consumption and long operation hours in particular are including translucent membranes in their daylighting strategies. For this reason, the use of reliable tools for the prediction of the lighting environment experienced in daylit spaces, which exploit translucent membranes, has become essential. To date most analytic efforts related to predicting daylighting performance has concentrated on the analysis of light penetration through glass openings. Little attention has been paid to the light transmission through fabric membranes. The membranes itself are normally in tensioned creating double curvature shapes. The simulation of light transmitted through membranes involves the modelling of complex geometries, which places significant demand to their modelling. This thesis explores the daylighting performance of sports buildings that include translucent membranes as part of their daylighting strategy. Performance of these buildings has been assessed by field illuminance measurements, physical scale modelling in artificial sky and three-dimensional modelling using Radiance software. The accuracy of the simulation tools is assessed against the lighting data recorded in the field study. Findings show that physical scale models tend to overestimate the illuminance levels and daylight factors of the sports halls. On the other hand, Radiance simulations proved to be accurate in terms of daylight factors and illuminance distribution in the playing areas. Finally, a questionnaire has been distributed among the occupants of the three case study buildings and one totally artificially illuminated sports centre. The purpose of this survey is to evaluate the users satisfaction towards the lighting environment of the enclosures. The ability to accurately predict the daylighting performance in membrane sports buildings is significant for the development of research in daylighting and sustainable architecture. In addition, the further use of translucent membranes for the control of natural light in all type of buildings relies on the possibility to confidently predict their daylighting performance.