i am a professional lighting designer and very often i have to deal with so calles IES Files. These are used to describe the 3D illumination characteristics of a lightsource. It's a PHOTOMETRY file and consists of only text. Rows of Angles and rows of data to describe the measured light intensities.
But it is a very stressful and time consuming work to manipulate an IES file or to compare two IES files. Some Programs convert these Files to a 3D Solid like Model to show the light distribution. : Image of Photometry as Solid
Do you think that it would be possible to write an importer and exporter for these kind of files for meshlab ? And how complex do you think this work would be ?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
Karsten
I already tried to write a parser for excel which is able to transform the data to x,y,z coordinates and form a mesh or solid. But my knowledge in programming is not good enaugh to get this working.
I intended to produce a dxf file in the end. But i never got this far.
