Meaning of anidolic | Babel Free

Definitions

Pertaining to nonimaging transfer of light, particularly in the domain of indoor natural lighting.

not-comparable

Examples

“Doctorate students at our University can find⟳ in the Syllabus a course entitled Dialogues on Anidolic Optics. The inquiring reader might ask⟳ what anidodlic means. It is nothing but non-imaging in Greek, but (to us) it sounds better. As researchers in this field we cannot allow⟳ ourselves to deal⟳ with common names as charm or others used by the particle physicist, as we deal⟳ with a venerable and traditional science (old fashioned even, as perhaps we at this Institute are): geometrical optics, whose variational principles were already known by Plotine and other Ancient Greeks.”

“Zenithal openings (Couret et al. 1994) are also attracting interest⟳ because they provide⟳ a high illuminance level; an anidolic toplighting consists of a compound parabolic concentrator which concentrates light⟳ in its top mirror and then diffuses it with its bottom one (Figure⟳ 3.21). It protects against direct⟳ sunlight, something difficult with atria.”

“An anidolic reflector offers the prospect of being able to concentrate diffuse light⟳ from a selected portion of the sky, and transmit that light⟳ to another anidolic reflector where it will be 'deconcentrated' and diffused within an interior space.”

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