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Indoor View Factor Calculator

Use this component to generate test points within a zone and calculate the view factor from each of these points to the other zurfaces in a zone as well as the sky.
This component is a necessary step before creating an thermal map of an energy model.

Inputs

Name	ID	Description	Type
HBZones	_HBZones	The HBZones out of any of the HB components that generate or alter zones. Note that these should ideally be the zones that are fed into the Run Energy Simulation component as surfaces may not align otherwise. Zones read back into Grasshopper from the Import idf component will not align correctly with the EP Result data.	Goo
Grid Size	gridSize_	A number in Rhino model units to make each cell of the view factor mesh.	Goo
Dist From Floor Or Srf	distFromFloorOrSrf_	A number in Rhino model units to set the distance of the view factor mesh from the floor of the zones. Alternatively, this can be a surface or list of surfaces on which you are interested in studying thermal comfort. Lastly, it can be a list of points at which you want to evaluate microclimate conditions.	Goo
Additional Shading	additionalShading_	Add additional shading breps or meshes to account for geometry that is not a part of the zone but can still block direct sunlight to occupants. Examples include outdoor context shading and indoor furniture.	Goo
Add Shd Transmiss	addShdTransmiss_	An optional transmissivity that will be used for all of the objects connected to the additionalShading_ input. This can also be a list of transmissivities whose length matches the number of breps connected to additionalShading_ input, which will assign a different transmissivity to each object. Lastly, this input can also accept a data tree with a number of branches equal to the number of objects connected to the additionalShading_ input with a number of values in each branch that march the number of hours in the simulated analysisPeriod (so, for an annual simulation, each branch would have 8760 values). The default is set to assume that all additionalShading_ objects are completely opaque. As one adds in transmissivities with this input, the calculation time will increase accordingly.	Goo
============	============	...	Goo
Include Outdoor	includeOutdoor_	Set to 'True' to have the final visualization take the parts of the input Srf that are outdoors and color them with temperatures representative of outdoor conditions. Note that these colors of conditions will only approximate those of the outdoors, showing the assumptions of the Energy model rather than being a perfectly accurate representation of outdoor conditions. The default is set to 'False' as the inclusion of outdoor conditions can often increase the calculation time.	Goo
View Resolution	viewResolution_	An interger between 0 and 4 to set the number of times that the tergenza skyview patches are split. A higher number will ensure a greater accuracy but will take longer. The default is set to 0 for a quick calculation.	Goo
Remove Air Walls	removeAirWalls_	Set to "True" to remove air walls from the view factor calculation. The default is set to "True" sinc you usually want to remove air walls from your view factor calculations.	Goo
============	============	Script variable IndoorViewFactor	Goo
Parallel	parallel_	Set to "True" to run the calculation with multiple cores and "False" to run it with a single core. Multiple cores can increase the speed of the calculation substantially and is recommended if you are not running other big or important processes. The default is set to "True."	Goo
Build Mesh	_buildMesh	Set boolean to "True" to generate a mesh based on your zones and the input distFromFloorOrSrf_ and gridSize_. This is a necessary step before calculating view factors from each test point to the surrounding zone surfaces.	Goo
Run It	_runIt	Set boolean to "True" to run the component and calculate viewFactors from each test point to surrounding surfaces.	Goo

Outputs

Name	ID	Description	Type
Out	readMe!	...	String
==========	==========	...	Goo
View Factor Mesh	viewFactorMesh	A data tree of breps representing the split mesh faces of the view factor mesh.	Goo
View Factor Info	viewFactorInfo	A list of python data that carries essential numerical information for the Comfort Analysis Workflow, including the view factors from each test point to a zone's surfaces, the sky view factors of the test points, and information related to window plaement, used to estimate stratification in the zone. This should be plugged into a "Comfort Analysis Recipe" component.	Goo
==========	==========	Script variable IndoorViewFactor	Goo
Test Pts	testPts	The test points, which lie in the center of the mesh faces at which comfort parameters are being evaluated.	Goo
View Mesh Faces	viewMeshFaces	Script variable IndoorViewFactor	Goo
Zone Wire Frame	zoneWireFrame	A list of curves representing the outlines of the zones. This is particularly helpful if you want to see the outline of the building in relation to the temperature and comfort maps that you might produce off of these results.	Goo
View Vectors	viewVectors	The vectors that were used to caclulate the view factor (note that these will increase as the viewResolution increases).	Goo
Shading Context	shadingContext	A list of meshes representing the opaque surfaces of the zone. These are what were used to determine the sky view factor and the direct sun falling on occupants.	Goo
Closed Air Volumes	closedAirVolumes	The closed Breps representing the zones of continuous air volume (when air walls are excluded). Zones within the same breps will have the stratification calculation done together.	Goo