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

Ryan Southall; Filip Biljecki

doi:10.1186/s40965-017-0036-1

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

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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 language	English
Article number	23
Journal	Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards
Volume	2
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s40965-017-0036-1
Publication status	Published - 14 Sept 2017

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© 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.

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Shadow maps
Radiation maps
Blender
Radiance
Python

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