Hi Group.
Riddle me this! I’m running a very simple room analysis with one window to determine the annual daylight impact within a room based on orientation. My location is London, I’m using the HB Annual Daylight recipe. My room reflectance are 0.8 for walls and ceilings and 0.4 for floor with a window having 0.62 transmittance. I’ve plugged in the Radiance Par component set to medium quality (so -ab 5 etc). I’ve then run a script to change the orientation of the room (via the compass) at 1 degree intervals. I’ve then post processed this into an image to give the sDA of the room at each degree.
All very straightforward. However as shown by the images attached the results jump around wildly. I’d expect some variation as obviously with radiance there will be a little based on the raytracing algorythim. However it’s jumping from an sDA of 97% at 1 degree, down to 54% at 2 degrees back up to 96% at 3 degrees. And then randomly in that format throughout 360 degree orientation. What’s going on here? Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated as atm I’m not sure I can trust HBR results for Annual Daylight.
Thanks in advance
Dan