Update ~ 2017-07-20 ~ 3D Mapping

[theo-armour]

@ladybug-tools/core

3D terrain mesh with 2D tile overlay and buildings in 3D: all in one file.

Yes, the buildings are floating but they should be grounded very soon - with sun ranges and solar access soon after that.

And, of course available for any lat and lon and any date and time.

[theo-armour]

@ladybug-tools/core

It's starting to work!!!

Type an address and bingo!

Speed highly dependent on number of structures.

Coit Tower, San Francisco / 1350 structures ~ 30 seconds

Tenzing-Hillary Airport, Chaurikharka, Eastern Region, Nepal / fifteen seconds?

Still a number of issues - especially matching building and mesh scales.

Suns and shadows by Sunday???

[mostaphaRoudsari]

@theo-armour this looks great!

[theo-armour]

@ladybug-tools/core

https://jaanga-terrain4.glitch.me/index.html

It's taken a bit longer than I wanted to get to where things are today, but then again lots of features creeped in - such as cursor key moves and address auto completion.

There will be a full blog post in the next day or so, And all the Sun shade, solar access features should come on board - and that will happen in Ladybug Web.

In the meantime I would be pleased to get some feedback as to if entering an address to update the location works for you.

Theo

[mostaphaRoudsari]

@theo-armour, it works seamlessly on my side. very nice. A couple of questions.

1. Is the height exaggerated or did you intentionally picked sites that has drastic elevation changes?
2. What does the color of the buildings mean? I think , specially for shadow studies it would be nice to have them all in a monotone color.