From the course: Grasshopper Plugins
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Sunlight simulation with Ladybug
From the course: Grasshopper Plugins
Sunlight simulation with Ladybug
Recently in the Northern Hemisphere, we had a really cool solar eclipse. And I whipped up this file as an example in Ladybug to check and see whether I'd be able to see that eclipse from my backyard. In Grasshopper, I've got the demo file, 0040-sunpath-begin.gh open. And in Rhino, I've got ladybug-sunpath.3dm open. We're kind of continuing on with a very similar version of this weather data import that we covered in other videos. So that's pretty much the same. I've made a couple changes to my Analysis Period here, just getting a little bit more granular, adding in a start and end day and hour so that I can zero in on just that time of the eclipse. So let's go ahead and add to this. So let's jump to that Ladybug component panel. And under Visualized Data, we're looking for this LB Sunpath component. So this will give us a visualization of the position of the sun at certain times depending on our Analysis Period. So to set this up, I can see that we need a location, and that I can take…
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