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iat-cener / tonatiuh

A Monte Carlo ray tracer for the optical simulation of solar concentrating systems
http://iat-cener.github.io/tonatiuh/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Material parameters question #92

Closed AbdallahAyman closed 7 years ago

AbdallahAyman commented 7 years ago

untitled222 Can some one tell me what is the unit used for sigma slope ? is it mrad or rad or degree? And what is the difference between pillbox and normal in the distribution parameter?

ilescener commented 7 years ago

Dear user,

The unit for the sigma slope is the mrad. The pillbox is a probability uniform distribution in the range of [-sigmaSlope, +sigmaSlope] meanwhile the normal is a Gaussian distribution centred in the 0 and with sigmaSlope as a standard deviation.

I think this kind of information can be found in the Wiki but also we should include some help dialog or some text near the box to make all this information know for the new users.

Regards Iñigo

AbdallahAyman commented 7 years ago

I got it. Thanks for the reply. Best regards, Abdallah