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Pollination is an open source batch simulation and visualization tool for running Rhino, Grasshopper, and OpenStudio/EnergyPlus paramtrics. The simulations can run on a local windows instance or the "takeoff script" can be used to spin up an Amazon AWS cluster to run the simulations remotely and downloaded upon completion.
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Where to get started? #1

Open mostaphaRoudsari opened 10 years ago

mostaphaRoudsari commented 10 years ago

Hello Pollination team, Hope you are fine.

After Hackathon there has been so many requests to get this project connected to current Honeybee workflows. I'm thinking to devote some time in the coming months to this project and integrate pollination project to Honeybee so more people can use this amazing development.

I have some ideas on how to integrate it to the project and some questions which I wanted to share with you here so I can have your thoughts.

  1. Where should I get started? Do you have some documentation, screencast, etc, that shows how can I get started?
  2. Currently the workflow needs to have Rhino/Grasshopper installed on the AWS machines. It can bring so many issues with itself. I'm thinking to modify the workflow to be based on executing the batch files so we only need simulation tools (EP, OS, Radiance) to be installed. @AndrewHeumann I know that the workflow was based on some of your development. How do you feel about this change? Does it make sense to you?
  3. Once number 2 is applied then why should we use Windows machines? I think we will gain so much by moving to UNIX systems. For Radiance the benefits are obvious for the rest I'm not sure how much it will make a difference. The only issue that I can see here is that Daysim only works on Windows but I think we can replace daysim with radiance gendaymtx and integrate some post processing for schedules so it will be fine. @nllong what is your comments on this?
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Let's get this started again!

mostaphaRoudsari commented 10 years ago

Ding!

brianringley commented 10 years ago

Does that mean time is up :(

mostaphaRoudsari commented 10 years ago

Just pushing it up in the emails.

mostaphaRoudsari commented 9 years ago

Yo! Visualization part is now done and is part of Honeybee >> http://mostapharoudsari.github.io/Honeybee/Pollination

I will go live at some point soon! Please let me know if you have any comments.