How to connect complex model in rhino with ecotect to analys mirror reflection

Hello all,

My goal is to find the best angle of multiple mirror surfaces to have the best lux level on the floor of the building.

My changing input is the angle and the dimensions of thoses mirror surfaces.

How can i import complex building in grasshopper to be meshes in Geco and regonized in ecotect as surface to analyse. Is it a good way ? Because ecotect seems to not support to complex model with meshes.

I might need use Galapagos to test many solution

Any way ? any solution ?

Regards.

(See my project in the attached file)

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Permalink Reply by Florian Heinzelmann on October 6, 2014 at 12:16pm

Hi.

I would like to recommend the following. Make first a 2 d parametric section of the mirror system in grasshopper in order to asses the reflection vectors and basic principle. Then do the parametric 3D model. Use Diva (you can obtain a student license) which is a package including Radiance and make grid based illumination simulations. The output will be a colored mesh of your floor which you can feed back into grasshopper. You should then be able to make use of galapagos to find a good solution. However you most probably won't find the best solution for the whole day and season. Therefore you need to define first according to location and occupancy of your building a sun angle range which you would like to cover most optimally. Reflections are fine within radiance, optics like lenses/refraction won't be possible (unless you go via linux and get the photon mapping module).

May this can help you a bit:

http://repository.tudelft.nl/view/conferencepapers/uuid%3A4fc69230-...

Permalink Reply by Dorian on October 11, 2014 at 11:10am