TB of RAM. I think I'm going to start a GoFundMe campaign to buy one for myself :)
2- The server's cost is about $13 an hour. I get free access to supercomputer through my university and xsede.org because I earned an NSF Honorable mention last March, however, the supercomputers available through both resources are a little complicated for me to use, as opposed to the one available from amazon that has Microsoft server 2012 already installed.
3- I wanted to run 400 annual glare simulations for 400 different views.
4- I tried a to perform annual glare simulation for one view on my Dell XPS that has Intel Core i7-6700HQ processor and 16GB of system memory. The simulation took 2 hours to complete. Radiance parameter ab was set to 6.
5- I wanted to obtain the batch file for each view so I can run them on the server. So I used the fly component to run all 400 simulations and closed the cmd windows, that wasn't bad ( for me at least) because I asked my son to this job for me, he was just glad to help me :)
6- I created one batch file using this cmd command:
dir /s /b *.bat > runall.bat
This created a file with the path to each .bat file. I edited this file in Notepad++ to include the word "start" at the beginning of each line. This was done using the "find and replace" dialogue box.
7- I split my newly created batch file into 3 batch files, each one has about 130 file names and " start" before the file names.
8- installed radiance on my server
9- Ran the first batch file on the server, this started 130 cmd windows performing my simulations, CPU usage was anywhere between 90% to 100% and about 105 GB of RAMs were used.
10. It took about 5 hours to complete all 130 simulations, I expected to run all in 2 hours but can't complain because this would've taken about 260 hours to run on my laptop. After the simulations done I ran the second and then the third batch files ( total of about 15 hours).
11. I got 400 valid dgb files. Couldn't be happier!
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he time to work with it.
the project is about facade strips which turns along height. the top angle is
parallel to the facade and the bottom is max. 90 degrees twisted, but the strips
should turn diffrently to achieve more dinamic look.
first i have tried to achieve this by calculating distance between the rotation angle from points of the grid and a single point.
then i have tried to ad some more effecting points and used the distance to the divided surface (the circles are just to control the area of effection):
i manually lofted it.
the result is a bit annoying becouse the points that effect the angle are always visible:
i have triend to solve this by drawing a line and divided it to recieve points along the bottom of the geometry. the result is not working properly:
Anyway,
there must be a better/smoother way to achieve this. i would like to effect the twist of the surfaces by distance to a spline, but im just lost. can you help me please?
the problems im encountering:
0- distance spline to grid to effect the angle
1- list of x/y coordinates and angle of rotation for each point of the grid
2- export points to excel
3- lofting lines in one direction only (x1, x2, x3...)
4- reduce the list data to 2 decimal (0,00)
5- maybe angle from radian to degrees
thx…
ents will react to sensors, creating a range of different lighting and spatial effects that will trigger further movement and produce a feedback loop of behaviour and response. To accommodate this responsiveness, the design will be developed using parametric associative modeling, processing, arduino, and digital fabrication using the CNC and Laser Cutters. Students can both develop completely new designs, and/or work on the evolution of the Workshop 1 Supple Pavilion project.
The Visiting School will return to Barracão Escola de Carnaval to evolve the design of the migrating Pavilions, their contents and their context, exploring a design philosophy of interactive event design and the production of a creative fusion of high-tech design generation and fabrication with low-tech redefinition of Carnival-float artisan techniques, paraphernalia, and materials. We will work in the immense and creative Pimpolhos warehouse, collaborating with local artisans of several Samba Schools in the post-industrial, partly-derelict Porto do Rio area, (the birthplace of the Carnival and Samba), introducing digital fabrication techniques. The goal is to create interventions for micro-venues and cultural events that express the identity of the Samba culture within the `Porto Maravilha` planning.
Instruction for the Supple Pavilions workshop series will be led by Rob Stuart-Smith of Kokkugia, Lawrence Friesen of Generative Geometry, Ivan Ivanoff of Interactive Art Estado Lateral Media Lab, Toru Hasegawa of Proxy, with Anne Save de Beaurecueil and Franklin Lee of SUBdV, along with other AA tutors, the Pimpolhos Artistic Directors, and Carnival float-fabricators. Each workshop will provide an introduction to computational design (Grasshopper, Processing and Arduino) and digital fabrication, no previous computational experience is required. Students taking part in multiple workshops will have access to advanced computation instruction. This workshop will produce 1:1 prototyping, exploring the structure and transformations of the pavilions. Final fabrication and assemblage will occur in July.
The workshop is open to architecture and design students and professionals worldwide. Participants can take part in one or more workshops, with fee discounts offered to those interested in multiple workshops.
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he results are accurate enough.Good to go!Current working directory is set to: C:\002_VIDEO\02_UNI\TU_GRAZ\01_DISSERTATION\02_RESEARCH\08_POMODORO\01_SIMULATION_MODEL/03_HONEYBEE\VF_00\gridBasedSimulation\start cmd /c C:\Users\paratufello\AppData\Roaming\Ladybug\unnamed\annualSimulation\unnamed_7_DS.batWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get Commandlinestart cmd /c C:\Users\paratufello\AppData\Roaming\Ladybug\unnamed\annualSimulation\unnamed_7_DS.batWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get Commandlinestart cmd /c C:\Users\paratufello\AppData\Roaming\Ladybug\unnamed\annualSimulation\unnamed_7_DS.batWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get Commandlinestart cmd /c C:\Users\paratufello\AppData\Roaming\Ladybug\unnamed\annualSimulation\unnamed_7_DS.batWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get Commandlinestart cmd /c C:\Users\paratufello\AppData\Roaming\Ladybug\unnamed\annualSimulation\unnamed_7_DS.batWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get Commandlinestart cmd /c C:\Users\paratufello\AppData\Roaming\Ladybug\unnamed\annualSimulation\unnamed_7_DS.batWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get Commandlinestart cmd /c C:\Users\paratufello\AppData\Roaming\Ladybug\unnamed\annualSimulation\unnamed_7_DS.batWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get Commandlinestart cmd /c C:\Users\paratufello\AppData\Roaming\Ladybug\unnamed\annualSimulation\unnamed_7_DS.batWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get Commandlinestart cmd /c C:\Users\paratufello\AppData\Roaming\Ladybug\unnamed\annualSimulation\unnamed_7_DS.batWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineRuntime error (IndexOutOfRangeException): index out of range: 0Traceback: line 271, in script…
is set to: C:\002_VIDEO\02_UNI\TU_GRAZ\01_DISSERTATION\02_RESEARCH\08_POMODORO\01_SIMULATION_MODEL/03_HONEYBEE\VF_00\gridBasedSimulation\start cmd /c C:\Users\paratufello\AppData\Roaming\Ladybug\unnamed\annualSimulation\unnamed_7_DS.batWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get Commandlinestart cmd /c C:\Users\paratufello\AppData\Roaming\Ladybug\unnamed\annualSimulation\unnamed_7_DS.batWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get Commandlinestart cmd /c C:\Users\paratufello\AppData\Roaming\Ladybug\unnamed\annualSimulation\unnamed_7_DS.batWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get Commandlinestart cmd /c C:\Users\paratufello\AppData\Roaming\Ladybug\unnamed\annualSimulation\unnamed_7_DS.batWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get Commandlinestart cmd /c C:\Users\paratufello\AppData\Roaming\Ladybug\unnamed\annualSimulation\unnamed_7_DS.batWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get Commandlinestart cmd /c C:\Users\paratufello\AppData\Roaming\Ladybug\unnamed\annualSimulation\unnamed_7_DS.batWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get Commandlinestart cmd /c C:\Users\paratufello\AppData\Roaming\Ladybug\unnamed\annualSimulation\unnamed_7_DS.batWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get Commandlinestart cmd /c C:\Users\paratufello\AppData\Roaming\Ladybug\unnamed\annualSimulation\unnamed_7_DS.batWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get Commandlinestart cmd /c C:\Users\paratufello\AppData\Roaming\Ladybug\unnamed\annualSimulation\unnamed_7_DS.batWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineWMIC PROCESS get CommandlineRuntime error (IndexOutOfRangeException): index out of range: 0Traceback: line 271, in script…
dy for a wall where we want to analyze its openings. I made a parametric wall that then get's analyzed with different geometries and the idea was just to leave it there for the weekend as it morphed through different iterations. However, after successfully running a test simulation on my pc (just with one iteration), it fails to run the same test on the workplace computer. Any help would be greatly apprecated! Here is the following error:
Sorry! But the number of available CPUs on your machine is 4.
Honeybee set the number of CPUs to 4.
Grid-based Radiance simulation
The component is checking ad, as, ar and aa values. This is just to make sure that the results are accurate enough.
Good to go!
Current working directory is set to: C:\ladybug\Parametric_Shading_Wall\psw_z0.25_t.025_y.2_r90_m3_lux\gridBasedSimulation\
Failed to read the results!
rtrace: fatal - (psw_z0.25_t.025_y.2_r90_m3_lux_RAD.oct): truncated octree
rtrace: fatal - (psw_z0.25_t.025_y.2_r90_m3_lux_RAD.oct): truncated octree
rtrace: fatal - (psw_z0.25_t.025_y.2_r90_m3_lux_RAD.oct): truncated octree
rtrace: fatal - (psw_z0.25_t.025_y.2_r90_m3_lux_RAD.oct): truncated octree
Runtime error (PythonException): Failed to read the results!
rtrace: fatal - (psw_z0.25_t.025_y.2_r90_m3_lux_RAD.oct): truncated octree
rtrace: fatal - (psw_z0.25_t.025_y.2_r90_m3_lux_RAD.oct): truncated octree
rtrace: fatal - (psw_z0.25_t.025_y.2_r90_m3_lux_RAD.oct): truncated octree
rtrace: fatal - (psw_z0.25_t.025_y.2_r90_m3_lux_RAD.oct): truncated octree
PS. It says to see line 336…
y using the Honeybee_Update Honeybee component.
The video below (best viewed in full-screen mode) provides an idea of what these components are capable of being used for:
The video below shows how these components can be used in an existing Honeybee project (for additional links please open this video in youtube):
I have uploaded two examples as Hydra files that show how these components can be used for grid-point and image-based simulations:
Example1 : Grid Point Calculations
Example2: Image based simulation
Finally, a more esoteric application is demonstrated in this video:
These components are still in the beta-testing stage. Some of the limitations of the components are:
1. Only Type C photometry IES files are supported at present.
2. Rhino is likely to get sluggish if there are too many luminaires (i.e. light fixtures) present in a scene.
3. Due to the spectral limitations of the ray-tracing software (RADIANCE), simulations involving color mixing might not be physically realizable.
Additional details about photometric and spectral calculations are probably an overkill for this forum. However, I'd be glad to answer any related questions. Please report any bugs or request new features either on this forum or on Github.
Mostapha, Leland Curtis, Reinhardt Swart and Dr. Richard Mistrick provided valuable inputs during the development of these components.
Thanks,
Sarith
Update 16th January 2017:
An example with some new components and bug fixes since the initial release announcement can be found here
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te some cut sheets, but not to optmize material, rather define some cut lines. Everything that I am cutting is made of planar wood elements, but there are very specific geometries (mostly straight lines) and I have to put tolerances and radiasas at the corners in order to cut on the cnc mill. Spending time to figure out how to automate is necessary, but I am stuck!
One thing the definition is doing is taking my brep modeled components in rhino and makking them into 2d close curves and laying them side by side. It works...not ideal as its not layed out in a sheet, but that is not the most important part.
Another particular problem is that you will see some notches in the curves, which other pieces will slip into, so different slots need different specific offsets (making them larger) as a toelrance to allow for material play. This I don't even know how to set up so maybe it will just have to wait.
THE MAIN QUESTION, and super important would be, LIFESAVER:
At all 'inward' corners...which I think will always mean concave corners (most are 90 degrees, but are within to sides, instead of a corner sticking out). I'm sure its obviousy, but the reason being the outward corners a circular dril bit can cut, but inward ones need an arc profile extended beyond where the corner of the other piece will fit into. The drill bit i am using is 6mm, so 6mm diamters arcs is what i'm working with.
I have managed to put such an arc at every vertices of each cut piece. The problem being some stick outward isntead of cutting into the piece. So each one needs to be orieneted correctly. Ideally they would also only draw into inward corners, but I can always delete them out. I think maybe I am missing a more logical mathematical way of defining?
For these geometries it is not very important which side the half circle arc in on in the inward corners, but I also have some geometries that I will have to control where the circles face according to the rest of the cut piece.
The cutouts in the middle of the pieces that are curves do not need such corners obviously.
The picture is an example drawn
I hope this isn't too specific and long. in general though automating fabrication, and controling pracitcal math and orientation problems like this is itnersting to me!
THANKS…
perienced with grasshopper, but so far I've managed to combine the following:
Giulio Piacentino's "Catenary arch from height" script
Pirouz Nourian's "Mobius" script (Obtained from a friend)
End Result:
Here's where I'm stuck: I want the mobius twist to revolve around the midpoint of the arch, but the script uses the input values to determine the endpoints, resulting in a weird sinuous shape when viewed from above. Also, the secondary end points (generated by the mobius script, determining the width of the surface) are generated by default along the z axis, resulting in an arch that only touches the "ground" at two points. I attempted to work around this issue by trying to force the zHeight parameter to correspond with the y axis (thus rotating the arch 90 degrees so it would lay "flat"), but the script interprets the third point as a value and not as an actual point to bisect. I thought this might be an issue with the C# component that I obtained from Giulio Piacentino's script, so I attempted to tinker around with the source code. Unfortunately, I'm not fluent in C# so I only managed to mess everything up (I've since recovered the code from the cache). Anybody got some ideas? -BC …
onsidered period.
Even if the end of July for the mediterranean climate is not the best period to perform an adaptive comfort analysis (it's just a pretest to define a LB model) I want to refine the Adaptive comfort Chart (AC) by changing the external air temperature data imported from the .epw file with that of monitored data as reported here below:
Where the monitored ext air temperature are in this form (green panel below):
I have used the comfortPar component to set the following parameters:
Adaptive chart as defined by EN 15251
90% of occupants comfortable
the prevailing outdoor temperature from a weighted running mean of the last week
fully conditioned space (even if it is not properly in line with AC as already discussed)
The question is this: the AC component could correctly apply the code below if there is only a list of external temperature data for a restricted period (without indication about the limits of this period) and not for an entire year?
else: #Calculate a running mean temperature. alpha = 0.8 divisor = 1 + alpha + math.pow(alpha,2) + math.pow(alpha,3) + math.pow(alpha,4) + math.pow(alpha,5) dividend = (sum(_prevailingOutdoorTemp[-24:-1] + [_prevailingOutdoorTemp[-1]])/24) + (alpha*(sum(_prevailingOutdoorTemp[-48:-24])/24)) + (math.pow(alpha,2)*(sum(_prevailingOutdoorTemp[-72:-48])/24)) + (math.pow(alpha,3)*(sum(_prevailingOutdoorTemp[-96:-72])/24)) + (math.pow(alpha,4)*(sum(_prevailingOutdoorTemp[-120:-96])/24)) + (math.pow(alpha,5)*(sum(_prevailingOutdoorTemp[-144:-120])/24)) startingTemp = dividend/divisor if startingTemp < 10: coldTimes.append(0) outdoorTemp = _prevailingOutdoorTemp[7:] startingMean = sum(outdoorTemp[:24])/24 dailyRunMeans = [startingTemp] dailyMeans = [startingMean] prevailTemp.extend(duplicateData([startingTemp], 24)) startHour = 24
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