Crown illumination values ranged from 1, which indicated low light, and 6, which indicated that the tree crown was completely exposed.
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Given that the sun is about 0.5 degrees diameter, this basically needs to be a color and illumination value for the sun ( per tiny unit view cone ) and a simple phi, theta representation ( or spherical harmonics ) of the color and illumination of the sky ( excluding the sun, per unit cone ).