From the course: Grasshopper Plugins
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Shadow study with Ladybug
From the course: Grasshopper Plugins
Shadow study with Ladybug
I'm getting be ready to do some landscaping in my backyard. And one thing that's going to really help me figure out where to plant what is to know which areas of the yard will be sunny and which will be shady. To help me figure that out, I'm going to do a shadow study with Ladybug, and this is something that's used generally in architecture and design to figure out exactly the sort of information. I'm working in the exercise file, 0050-sun-hours-map-begin.gh in Grasshopper, and in Rhino, I've got the file ladybug-sunpath.3dm open. Here in Grasshopper, we're working on a definition that's very similar to one we covered in a different video where we set up a sun path simulation. I can see that component right here. I've disabled the preview so we can look at our geometry and Rhino. Really, the only changes I've made here is to get a little bit more granular with my analysis period. So you can see I've added a few sliders here to control for the month, the day, as well as the hour of the…
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