architecture-building-systems / hive

Rhino Grasshopper plug-in for quick & dirty building simulation
https://www.food4rhino.com/en/app/hive
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Potential improvements to graph "solar gains on windows" #624

Open TianjiaoYang opened 3 years ago

TianjiaoYang commented 3 years ago

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Hi,

just want to point out that the positioning of legend could be improved, so that it does not overlap with the chart content. In addition, I personally find the "solar gains on windows" graph a bit overwhelming for a couple of reasons:

  1. The amount of solar radiation becomes unreadable (numbers in black) when there are many windows
  2. Seems like there are only 8 colors for color-coding the windows, so this color coding becomes pretty useless when the number of windows exceeds 8
  3. there is no clear rule as to which window is "Win00" and which is "Win20", so a connection between the data and the Rhino model is missing

I do think the information contained in this graph is very important, but the way it's presented makes it a bit difficult to draw useful conclusions or suggestions.

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