Potential Improvements to the LB Ray Tracing Component

[chris]

Hi @Hamzajh19 ,

I moved your comments to a new topic since you’re getting away from Radiance modeling in the other discussion and focusing more on the LB Surface Ray Tracing component, which uses Rhino-based ray intersection methods

One of your concerns already has a solution:

@Hamzajh19

a limitation I struggle with is the 1 hour interval in the Sunpath, which misses thouthands of minutes in such study which could be critical, as glare may occour in between the 1 hour interval.

You can plug decimal values into the hoys_ input of the LB Sunpath (eg. 13.5) and this will give you the sun position at the sub-hourly position. This is partly why the LB Calculate HOY input has a _minute_ input:

It’s also why the LB AnalysisPeriod component has a _timestep_ input:

Most of your other concerns are easy to address with a few tweaks to the component. Give me until the end of the weekend and I’ll try to push a new version.