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Facades are the primary interface controlling the flow of solar energy in buildings and affecting their energy balance and environmental impact. Recently, large-scale 3D printing (3DP) of translucent polymers has been explored as a technique for fabricatin ...
Evaluating the reflection of solar radiation by Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) with structured front-glass is challenging for two reasons. First, the resulting irregular scattering of light cannot be accounted for by simple reflection models. Sec ...
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To understand how daylight gives shape and life to architectural spaces, whether existing or imagined, requires quantifying its dynamism and energy. Maintaining these details presents a challenge to simulation and analysis methods that flatten data into di ...
Raytraverse is a python based software that helps to efficiently organize and guide the sampling of a lighting simulation within a scene. Radiance is embedded within Raytraverse to provide accurate and efficient solutions for each sampled ray. This talk wi ...
Current view representation methods in VR predominantly rely on static photographs and tone-mapping operators without temporal variations, limiting the exploration of dynamic features in a view. This study presents an alternative workflow to capture dynami ...
In this tutorial the basic usage of raytraverse to complete annual glare simulation tasks is covered. Raytraverse is a software for managing and speeding up the simulation of daylight in building. ...
Recently, there have been multiple proposals for faster methods to calculate glare metrics, daylight glare probability (DGP) in particular. This is driven simultaneously by the lengthy times required to simulate DGP with a conventional image-based approach ...
Scene and reference results files for: "A Critical Comparison of Annual Glare Simulation Methods" Stephen Wasilewski, Jan Wienold, Marilyne Andersen 2022 Buildsim Nordic, Copenhagen Contents: 01-06*.tar.gz: reference simulation image archives, one ...
This paper provides a validation of a novel sampling, storage, and evaluation method named raytraverse that can quickly and accurately compute glare and visual comfort metrics including vertical illuminance, Daylight Glare Probability (DGP), and Unified Gl ...
Complex Fenestration Systems (CFSs) can significantly impact both the visual and non-visual daylight effects on the occupants as well as the energy performance of buildings. To ensure that those impacts improve the overall situation, proper control algorit ...