"sunpath surface (ecotect)"?

Does anybody have an idéer how to create a surface ("hollow shell") formed precisely from the path of the sun?

http://www.archdaily.com/21168/autodesk-announces-ecotect-analysis-...

And is it possible to give the shell a color gradient (ex. blue -> red) from the strength of the sun (W/m2) over a year / month / day ...

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Permalink Reply by Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari on September 8, 2012 at 9:30pm

Hi Thomas,

It will be one of the features for the Ladybug but I haven't implement it yet.

If you want to know how the annual cumulative sky looks like I can send you a sky dome similar to what you can see in this video.

In case you only want to do a presentation and you have access to ECOTECT you can plot the radiation on the sun-path from calculate> Sun-Path Diagram.

What do you want it for?

Mostapha

Permalink Reply by Thomas Perkov on September 9, 2012 at 1:56am

Hey thanks for the answer :-)
What I want it for.?.. Well just for fun at first. Later I perhaps use it a School building projekt... Perhaps make a paper model to show the Sun path in a physical model

Permalink Reply by Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari on September 9, 2012 at 11:59am

Nice! So hopefully Ladybug will be out soon and then you can have fun with it! Stay tuned! :)

Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on September 9, 2012 at 5:09pm