Add gif to landing page

AdamRJensen commented 2 years ago

The current landing page for the documentation is a bit bleak and empty.

Thus, I propose we add a gif showing a demonstration of how the shading may change throughout the day.

Check out the readthedocs for this PR to see how it looks.

AdamRJensen commented 2 years ago

"Total area" has to be changed to "active area" in the subplot caption.

I'm very open to suggestions for how to improve the plots.

kandersolar commented 2 years ago

Very cool! I've been wishing for a long time that we had some simple 3-D scene viewer capable of showing beam shading for things like this. Maybe someday...

Suggestions:

Speed up the frame rate/increase the simulation interval a bit?
Consider a legend to indicate what each color represents
Maybe add another subplot like the one on the right in the below video, which has some marker that shows progress across the day? I'm not sure what time series would be best to plot though -- perhaps shaded fraction or solar position.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/57452607/157037325-0318868e-5b97-4681-a19f-3ed56be62f94.mp4

AdamRJensen commented 2 years ago

@kanderso-nrel What do you think of the new GIF (docs)?

pvlib / twoaxistracking

Add gif to landing page #20