GenCumulativeSky?

Anybody know anything about GenCumulativeSky? If it was ever released, etc? A google search turns up only the paper (Robinson & Stone, http://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/PLEA/ConferenceResources/PLEA2004/Proceedings/p1153final.pdf)

Thanks,
Cramer

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*Cramer Silkworth
212 219 2255 | [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Transsolar Inc. | 134 Spring Street Suite 601 | New York, NY 10012

Transsolar Climate Engineering
Technical consulting for energy efficiency and environmental quality in buildings.
New York - Stuttgart - Munich*

Dear Cramer,

We are extensively using GenCumultativeSky as part of the GSD Rhino
Toolbar for Radiance/Daysim. The toolbar is currently used in five GSD
studios and we intend to publicly release it later this year. (Matthias
is using it in his GSD class as well so you can talk to him about it.)

GenCumultativeSky produces cumulative radiation maps based on EPW files.
We are properly validating it right now but I think that it will yield
very similar results to RADMAP. I got the source code form Darren
Robinson earlier this year and modified it a bit so that it can now read
in EPW files and you can select time of day and year intervals for a
more detailed analysis. If Darren is OK with it, I can share the
modified code with anybody interested.

BTW, this is a good way of announcing to this group that we will be
offering another three day executive education program on 'Daylighting
Buildings' on July 14-16 2010. In the program we will be covering a
range of topics from climate-based daylighting metrics to glare analysis
of simulated and real daylit spaces using HDR images generated with
Photosphere and Radiance as well as annual daylight glare probability
calculations and the above mentioned Rhino plug-in for Radiance/Daysim.
You can sign up at
http://execed.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/exec_ed/details.cgi?offering_id=10
1838
<http://execed.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/exec_ed/details.cgi?offering_id=1
01838> .

Christoph

Christoph Reinhart, Dr. Ing.

Associate Professor of Architectural Technology

Graduate School of Design - Harvard University

Gund Hall 331, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

t: 617 384 7269, f: 617 495 8916, [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>

Research <http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/gsdsquare/> , Sustainable
Design Workflows
<http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/gsdsquare/tutorials.html>
Executive Education on Daylighting
<http://execed.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/exec_ed/details.cgi?offering_id=1
01838>

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Subject: [Radiance-general] GenCumulativeSky?

Anybody know anything about GenCumulativeSky? If it was ever released,
etc? A google search turns up only the paper (Robinson & Stone,
http://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/PLEA/ConferenceResources/PLEA2004/Proceedings/
p1153final.pdf)

Thanks,
Cramer

--
Cramer Silkworth
212 219 2255 | [email protected]
Transsolar Inc. | 134 Spring Street Suite 601 | New York, NY 10012

Transsolar Climate Engineering
Technical consulting for energy efficiency and environmental quality in
buildings.
New York - Stuttgart - Munich