Solar Studies Hackathon

[theo-armour]

@ladybug-tools/spiders

a vector based shadow maker - with Sun directly overhead. Shadows lifted to demo their vector-based existence

Solar Studies Read Me

I don't know where this is going. I don't know what I am doing. And I have started anyway.

This is likely to turn out to be a new demo file every few days. Each demo will have new features related the analysis of solar radiation and its affects on the built environment. Like some sort of ongoing, online hackathon.

Objectives include:

• Fast, easy, provocative
• Bidirectional interplay between CAD apps and energy apps
• All data attached to programmable vector-based objects
  • Every item of data numerically verifiable, reproducible and storable
  • Bitmap and pixel color representations: not required / not wanted
• Communicate with any app via JSON and gbXML (Pythonistas: we are looking at you)
• Feed new modules into gbXML Viewer
• Enhance and verify Ladybug Web Solar Calculator

Let me know if you wish to be notified with each new demo. Updates on this list may occur but will be less frequent.

[theo-armour]

@bwelle

Prototype: Raycasting 6

• Proof of concept achieved

  • Given an azimuth & altitude, a number of random objects, and a ground, the script casts rays from a number of points on the grid and calculates whether a point receives sunlight or shadow.
  • All calculations and results are measurable, reproducible and auditable

• New features

  • Button to toggle wireframe
  • Button to toggle vertex normals
  • Azimuth and altitude sliders work as intended
  • Shadows are drawn automatically at load time