The VI-Suite: a set of environmental analysis tools with geospatial data applications

Ryan Southall, Filip Biljecki

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    Abstract

    The VI-Suite is a free and open-source addon for the 3D content creation application Blender, developed primarily as a tool for the contextual and performative analysis of buildings. Its functionality has grown from simple, static lighting analysis to fully parametric lighting, shadowing, and building energy analyses. It adopts a flexible, mesh geometry based approach to the specification of calculation points and this has made it suitable for certain types of 3D geospatial analyses and data visualisation.
    Original languageEnglish
    Article number23
    JournalOpen Geospatial Data, Software and Standards
    Volume2
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 14 Sept 2017

    Bibliographical note

    © The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.

    Keywords

    • Shadow maps
    • Radiation maps
    • Blender
    • Radiance
    • Python

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