Categories
  • Lighting
  •   Encyclosphere.org ENCYCLOREADER
      supported by EncyclosphereKSF

    Visual comfort probability

    From Handwiki - Reading time: 1 min

    Visual comfort probability (VCP), also known as Guth Visual Comfort Probability, is a metric used to rate lighting scenes. VCP is defined as the percentage of people that will find a certain scene (viewpoint and direction) comfortable with regard to visual glare. [1][2] It was defined by Sylvester K. Guth in 1963. [3][4]

    References

    1. Visual Comfort and Productivity, tristate.apogee.net; retrieved February 16, 2014 via Wayback Machine
    2. Ward, G.J. (1991). "RADIANCE Visual Comfort Calculation". Rapport interne, LESO, EPFL. http://floyd.lbl.gov/radiance/refer/Notes/glare.ps. 
    3. Guth, SK (1963). "A method for the evaluation of discomfort glare". Illuminating Engineering 58 (5): 351–364. 
    4. Guth, Sylvester K. (October 1966). "Computing Visual Comfort Ratings For a Specific Interior Lighting Installation". Illuminating Engineering: 634–642. http://www.ies.org/PDF/100Papers/036.pdf. 




    This article is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
    Original source: https://handwiki.org/wiki/Visual comfort probability
    Status: article is cached
    Encyclosphere.org EncycloReader is supported by the EncyclosphereKSF