Calculation method of sky view factor based on rhino-grasshopper platform

Proceedings of BS 2013: 13th Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2658-2666

  Wu, Jie ^a,b   Zhang, Yufeng ^a   Meng, Qinglin ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b GUANGXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

A numerical method; Detail distribution of SVF; Rhino grasshopper

Indexed keywords

3D DATABASE; 3D VISUALIZATION; BISECTION METHOD; CALCULATION ACCURACY AND EFFICIENCIES; DETAIL DISTRIBUTION OF SVF; MEASURING POINTS; RHINO- GRASSHOPPER; SKY VIEW FACTOR;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 84886656286     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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