An interactive Web-based teaching tool for simplified 3D analysis of solar rhythms

Automation in Construction

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 181-194

  Jain, Archit ^a   Kensek, Karen ^a   Noble, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Html; JavaScript; Solar rhythms; VRML; Web based teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006837742     PISSN: 09265805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-5805(98)00072-7     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. E. Mazria, Solar Concepts. The Cylindrical Sun Chart is a vertical projection of the sun's path as seen from the earth, The Passive Solar Energy Book, Chap. 4, Rodale Press, Emmaus, PA, 1979, pp. 302-322.
2. The Oral Pathology web page can be found at http://www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/opath and the Communications and Art page is at http://www.usc.edu/dept/annenberg/ansc100/.
3. K. Martini, Digital Imaging and the Web in Teaching Structures: A Rigorous Visual Approach, ACADIA 1996 Proceedings: Design Computation, Collaboration, Reasoning and Pedagogy, ACADIA, Tucson, 215-225, http://urban.arch.virginia.EDU/~km6e/tti/tti-summary/.
4. An example is the Computational Composition by Rob Woodbury at the University of Adelaide. http://www.arch.adelaide.edu.au/df/.
5. R.W. Knapp, R. McCall, PHIDIAS II - In support of Collaborative Design, ACADIA 1996 Proceedings: Design Computation, Collaboration, Reasoning and Pedagogy, ACADIA, Tucson, 147-154, http://phidias.colorado.edu/phidias.
6. Developed at the University of Oregon by Prof. Chris H. Luebkeman with Eric Ngai and Elton Ng http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~struct/.
7. HTML, the HyperText Markup Language, is the lingua franca of the Web.
8. http://www.netscape.com. JavaScript, because of differences in interpretation, did not work very well with the earlier versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer. However, it is fully supported version 4.0.
9. For a list of VRML browsers available for various platforms refer to http://www.sdsc.edu/vrml/cgi-bin/display.cgi?category=Browsers+and+Plug- ins&.
10. http://cosmo.sgi.com/.
11. For a general discussion on VRML, refer to VRML Frequently Asked Questions (Jan Hardenbergh) at http://vag.vrml.org/VRML_FAQ.html.
12. http://developer.netscape.com/library/documentation/communicator/ jsguide4/index.htm JavaScript, now can also be used as a server side application, however, to maintain server independence, this tool uses only the client side aspect of the language.
13. K. Kensek, Work In Progress: Solar Envelopes and Solar Zoning, ACADIA Quarterly, 14 (2), 1995. The lisp program called CalcSolar, designed to generate solar envelopes in AutoCAD, provided the final versions of the formulae. The formulae were taken from books on Solar Design, mainly CBRI, Climatological and Solar Data for India (Meerut, India: Sarita Prakashan, 1969), and S.V. Szokolay, Thermal Design of Buildings, Red Hill, ACT, Australia: RAIA Education Division, 1987.
14. K. Kensek, Work In Progress: Solar Envelopes and Solar Zoning, ACADIA Quarterly, 14 (2), 1995. The lisp program called CalcSolar, designed to generate solar envelopes in AutoCAD, provided the final versions of the formulae. The formulae were taken from books on Solar Design, mainly CBRI, Climatological and Solar Data for India (Meerut, India: Sarita Prakashan, 1969), and S.V. Szokolay, Thermal Design of Buildings, Red Hill, ACT, Australia: RAIA Education Division, 1987.
15. K. Kensek, Work In Progress: Solar Envelopes and Solar Zoning, ACADIA Quarterly, 14 (2), 1995. The lisp program called CalcSolar, designed to generate solar envelopes in AutoCAD, provided the final versions of the formulae. The formulae were taken from books on Solar Design, mainly CBRI, Climatological and Solar Data for India (Meerut, India: Sarita Prakashan, 1969), and S.V. Szokolay, Thermal Design of Buildings, Red Hill, ACT, Australia: RAIA Education Division, 1987.
16. orient.c written by Stephen Chenney prompts for a from vector, an at vector, and an up vector, then calculates the orientation required to align the default VRML camera with the given camera. The code is available from ftp://ftp.cs.su.oz.au/stephen/vrml/orient.c.
17. Though the advantages of the Web are generally known, this section has been derived mainly from http://www.wayne.edu/wtt/wtt.html and from http://seaccd.sccd.ctc.edu/ ~jkent/ntcforum/index.htm. For a general discussion on Web-based teaching and related topics, refer to http://www.csv.warwick.ac.uk/alt-E/alt-C95/papers.html.
18. http://www.kubos.org/utils/frameset.html.