ad something to do with total internal reflection. Since Radiance is a stochastic ray tracing engine, there will always be some rays that undergo total internal reflection.
I once had an online discussion with Greg Ward about this. I am pasting the relevant excerpt below:
Is there a way to debug or track a rendering processes during runtime ie to know if it will render at all ? Secondly, is there a likelihood of something like total internal reflection happening and light rays not escaping ?
Sarith (Sep 30 '15)
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The progress reports are the best way to make sure that the renderings are progressing, which they seemed to be doing until they got killed. Even in cases where total internal reflection prevents rays escaping, the tracing will hit some limit (either -lw or -lr and setting both to 0 will give an error) to prevent an infinite loop. Believe me, if there were any infinite loops in Radiance, people would be complaining about it!
GregWard (Sep 30 '15)
So even though the calculations don't go till infinity, they might consume(or demand) more resources than available. Although the glass primitive in Radiance is also a dielectric, it isn't as resource intensive as it is assumed to be very thin and therefore optimized. Trans is another material which seems to be resource hungry.
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be useful for ?
The only Kangaroo input that currently uses Tree access is the Geometry input. All the others have only Item access.
As you know, normally with item access inputs on a component or script, if you provide that input with a list or a tree, it behaves roughly as though you have multiple separate copies of the same component with each of those branches or list items as an input.
However, because I store information (such as particle positions) between iterations, it looks as though trying to use multiple branches for things like the Kangaroo Force input doesn't work, because the data from separate branches ends up mixing.
One time this is useful is that you can provide 'Reset' with a list of 'True,False,False,False...' and get multiple frames or instants in time as an output (and I guess this shows that it is not really keeping things separate like with other components, because each item in the list is using the result from the previous item).
If you want to simulate several things in parallel (e.g. relaxing 10 different meshes at once), you can always just input them all into the same simulation, but don't include any interactions between them. If you need to keep the results in separate branches for downstream operations, then you can do so using the Geometry input.
So I can't see much advantage in being able to have different simulations running in different branches - except maybe if you wanted to do something like run each of the relaxations with a different timestep - and this currently doesn't seem worth the headache it would be trying to get all the paths to operate separately. Though if you have a compelling reason why it would be useful then I'd reconsider.
I hope that makes things clearer…
th (60° max in Paris), but the problem stil arises for the angle theta (for the south but also for the others orientations). For the diffuse radiation, this difference should be 10% as you noticed.
2) I have done some simulations and tried to analyse the weather file used. You can find my results in the Excel File attached. Some simulations take into account the glazing and others just determine the "occultation factor" of the shading device, to which I apply then the solar factor of the window. I found there is a noticeable difference between "_shading_1" and "_Focc_1" for exemple, we should have found similar values ... ? It seems to happen something strange when the rays passe through the glass to reach the analysis points. Facing those results, I still have trouble to draw conclusions. I also determined the diffuse part of radiations for each day from the weather file used, it may help to understand ... If you have any suggestion to explain those results, please let me know.
3) Another point attracts my attention :
The horizontal infrared radiation intensity of the weather file is quite high and constant. I'm wondering if HB take into account this solar radiation's component which represent about 50% of the solar energy ?!
http://bigladdersoftware.com/epx/docs/8-3/auxiliary-programs/energyplus-weather-file-epw-data-dictionary.html#field-horizontal-infrared-radiation-intensity
I continue my research about what is going under the hood (reading documents on Radiance and Daysim calculations) and let you know about the progress of my searches.
Thank you again for your support !
Regards,
Severine
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ont. outputs 2 lists. a with neighbors in front and b without.
i have attached a final screenshot, a rhino testfile with ca points and the final definition.
this is the code:
'Declare and Initialize data
Dim i As Integer = 0
Dim j As Integer = 0
Dim pts_count As Integer = pts.Count() - 1
Dim new_ptsA As New List(Of On3dPoint)
Dim new_ptsB As New List(Of On3dPoint)
Dim temp_pt1 As On3dPoint
Dim c As Integer = 0
'Loop through base points
For i = 0 To pts_count
c = 0
For j = 0 To pts_count
If pts(j).x = pts(i).x And pts(j).z = pts(i).z And pts(j).y = pts(i).y - 10 Then
Print("neighbor in front")
temp_pt1 = pts(i)
new_ptsA.Add(temp_pt1)
c = 1
End If
Next
If c = 0 Then
Print("NO neighbor in front")
temp_pt1 = pts(i)
new_ptsB.Add(temp_pt1)
End If
Next
'Assign new points
A = new_ptsA
B = new_ptsB
be aware that the code assumes a grid width and depth of 10x10.
volker.
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The PC actually stops working because after a few seconds the simulation starts the fan inside the PC all of a sudden stops and for the next 5-10 mins I cannot do anything, even alt+ctrl+canc. After I wait for that time i get the followig error:
the ReadMe says:
{0;0;0}0. Grid-based Radiance simulation1. The component is checking ad, as, ar and aa values. This is just to make sure that the results are accurate enough.2. -ar is set to 300.3. Good to go!4. Current working directory is set to: C:\Users\Luigi\Desktop\Prova__\Prova_1\gridBasedSimulation\5. Found a trans material... Resetting st parameter from 0.85 to 0.011276004966. WMIC PROCESS get Commandline7. WMIC PROCESS get Commandline8. WMIC PROCESS get Commandline9. WMIC PROCESS get Commandline10. WMIC PROCESS get Commandline11. WMIC PROCESS get Commandline12. WMIC PROCESS get Commandline13. WMIC PROCESS get Commandline14. WMIC PROCESS get Commandline15. WMIC PROCESS get Commandline16. WMIC PROCESS get Commandline17. WMIC PROCESS get Commandline18. WMIC PROCESS get Commandline19. WMIC PROCESS get Commandline20. WMIC PROCESS get Commandline21. WMIC PROCESS get Commandline22. WMIC PROCESS get Commandline23. WMIC PROCESS get Commandline24. WMIC PROCESS get Commandline25. 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The thing is that if I raise the -aa parameter from 0.05 to 0.1 all works fine..
Is this only related to my PC then?? What should I do to solve this issue?
Thanks again for your help
Luigi…