Lady Chatterly wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@ausi.com:
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I read this article - wouldn't a decent 3D model/simulation with a good facsimile of sunlight have revealed at least some of these problems? There is a program available (found the link via a posting in alt.architecture) that, from what I can see at
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, calculates the sun position for different latitudes at different seasons. It'd be good even for non-architectural 3D work. Only drawback is that I don't see that it tells you the light color for the different angles, so that has to be worked out on one's own I suppose (although a lot of people still seem to forget about the change in light color and intensity with different sun angles, tho' that's a different topic).
I also found this article
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discusses what the authors call the "solar rights envelope", as it relates to the urban environment. I didn't see a specific reference to using a computer program - IOW, it seems to discuss a process done "by hand" so to speak.
Obtaining Solar Radiation Data:
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At any rate, the point to all this is, that the glare problem seems (to my lay-person's mind) to be something that ought to have been forseen by somebody.....
OK, back to lurking!
- K.