Light Pen

Collaborators: Thomas Jung, Ellen Yi-Luen Do

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Light Pen is a lighting design system driven by sketching on 3D virtual models. Conventional lighting design tools simulate the lighting effects of design decisions such as window locations, surface treatments, and fixture placement. Light Pen takes the inverse approach by allowing the designer to indicate desired illumination on a 3D model. This serves as input to a knowledge-based lighting design system, which recommends what lights to use and where to place them, based on the designer’s expressed intentions and on the geometry of the space.

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2004 Let there be light, E. Y-L Do and M. Gross, International Journal Architectural Computing, Volume 2, Number 2, 1 June 2004 pp 211: 227 [pdf]

2003 Light Pen – Sketching Light in 3D. Jung, T., Mark Gross, and Ellen Yi- Luen Do. In Digital Design – Research and Practice: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures, 327-338. CAAD Futures. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers [pdf]