Harvard University’s daylighting tutorials
April 22nd, 2010
Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design have some interesting tutorials on the daylighting and getting started with Ecotect and Radiance for lighting analysis. They also have an excellent introduction on exporting Rhino models to Ecotect. I feel these are great introductions especially for ungraduate students of architecture who want to incorporate basic daylighting studies [...]
Tags: analysis, daylighting, harvard university, radiance, rhino, tutorial
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Creating a high quality Ecotect weather file from Meteonorm
February 16th, 2010
One of the problems with the weather files that are bundled with Ecotect is that they are usually out-dated. Also, most of the weather stations are city airports which do not reflect the true weather conditions that might be prevailing on your site. This is the reason why it’s preferable to create your own weather [...]
Tags: meteonorm, weather
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Finding area of contours in Ecotect/Radiance analysis grid
February 9th, 2010
Finding area of the contours of the ecotect analysis grid was something which I had to do for my dissertation relating to lighting analysis in atriums and the adjacent spaces. One of the grids whose area I had to find for the different bands of daylight factors is: One of the easiest methods is clicking [...]
Tags: analysis grid, cs2, export, Illustrator, path area, radiance, telegraphics
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