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This dance studio is a work in progress.

It started as an experiment with modeling appropriate light levels with ies lights.  Then it got a little carried away - why have default walls and floors when you can have textures?  Why paint and not a mirror? What kind of room has a mirror wall?  Dance studio?  Sure why not?  Won’t the dancers get hot?  There should be air conditioning.  Shouldn’t a public space this size have a fire safety sprinkler system? ... and so on.  So much for a simple exercise!

Valuable lessons learned here:

- You need more light fixtures than you think. I modeled a florescent light fixture from General Electric (“GE” a light manufacturer) GE has IES data for most of their models including this one which I used for the light source.  GE also offers a tool for calculating the number and spacing of lights to provide appropriate light levels.  Those light levels are general standard for lighting design, which I found a few sources for online.

- You can avoid checker boarding of your floor materials by creating randomly wide “strips” running the length of the floor.  For each strip rotate and/or move the texture material.

I will create a separate post about the lighting and the lighting references.  I also hope to create a collection of GE IES light fixtures on the 3DWarehouse soon.

Cheers,

Andrew

(P.S. I’ve caught myself a few times clicking regular photographs with the scroll wheel in an attempt to rotate the view.  I think I have some sort of neurosis caused by Sketchup ;)