Theory documentation for software to control the pgII phirot2 automated sample mount and analyzing data obtained

TitleTheory documentation for software to control the pgII phirot2 automated sample mount and analyzing data obtained
Publication TypeReport
Year of Publication2013
AuthorsJacob C Jonsson
Date Published09/2013
CityBerkeley
Abstract

The phirot2 sample holder is a device used for controlling the angle of incidence for anisotropic samples with the pgII photogoniometer.

The first topic covered is how to control the instrument using the allmess command line tool which allows the measurement sequence to be more flexible than the pgc GUI tool usually used for control. A method to monitor drift over long measurement sessions is also covered. Tangential to this is several syntax examples of how bash shell script is used to call allmess. Code to generate bash scripts for samples with different degree of symmetry is discussed as well as how to modify a script to continue from a certain point if a measurement was aborted.

The second half of the document describes how to access the data and compile the data into the Klems XML format. A path for future combination with the Radiance interpolation format is also given.

Finally verification and visualization of BSDF data is discussed.

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