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Sunlight simulation with Ladybug

Sunlight simulation with Ladybug

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Sunlight simulation with Ladybug

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- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to take a look at some other visualization tools that are built into Ladybug, and this time, we're going to be dealing with sunlight and how it might interact with buildings or physical structures. So in Rhino, I've opened the exercise file ladybug-sunpath.3dm, and in Grasshopper, we're going to start from an earlier file. So I've opened up 0050-ladybug-windrose, and we're going to make some edits to this file and get it working with the Ladybug_SunPath component. So first of all, I'd like to keep some parts of this algorithm and delete some other parts. So I'm going to keep everything basically up to the analysis period, and we're just going to get rid of this part that's setting up the windrose. We don't need that anymore. I'm also going to make some adjustments to my analysis period. So we're going to keep August 21st as the day that we're focused on and we're going to change the hour to one o'clock, or 13, and we're going to go to four…

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