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Daylight visual effects: an interactive multimedia courseware prototype for beginning design students

Beginning design students often find that it is difficult to master the varied and complex issues of architectural daylighting within a short timescale. Daylight is very dynamic and difficult to capture, and students struggle to document and understand daylighting phenomena through the traditional approaches of physical modeling, graphic techniques and computations. However, computer graphics and multimedia technologies are becoming widely used in educational applications and can facilitate non-linear, interactive learning environments particularly suited to complex concepts.An interactive multimedia courseware prototype, Daylight Visual Effects (DVE), has been designed to provide a demonstration database and easy-to-use interface for beginning design students. Users gain or enhance knowledge about the visual effects of daylighting by reviewing relevant daylighting images, written information animations and 3D computer models in the DVE's database. A live demonstration of the DVE prototype will follow this brief discussion of its inception, development, effectiveness in the studio and potential for future modifications.