[Radiance-general] Leveraging the Python language in Building Performance Simulation

[info info]

Hi Aksel,

There is indeed interest in the Radiance community (I'm speaking as a
voyeur, not a Radiance expert), see i.e.;
https://sites.google.com/site/tbleicher/radiance/python-radiance
http://code.google.com/p/pyrat/
Etc.

I would love to have a Radiance script as a demo of how flexible Python is,
maybe there is some smallish task that we can tackle?

When I use Radiance, I see the input files, and all I can think of is; this
should be XML... Maybe there is interest in a 2-way parser?

As far as a more complete "wrapper" project is concerned, we would be happy
to also support in any way.

-Marcus





On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Aksel Groß <aksel at gobo.io> wrote:

> I am a big fan of Python myself, and wrote a few simple scripts for me to
> use with radiance. I am no programmer, so can encourage and support any
> designer to take a look at the Python language, it's quite fun!
>
> Btw, would be interested: are there professional Radiance modules for
> Python out there already? I once googled for them but without success.
>
> --
>
> Aksel Groß
> aksel at gobo.io
>
>
> Am 03.12.2012 um 12:57 schrieb info info <info at pythonpoweredbuilding.com>:
>
> > Dear simulation community,
> >
> > The Python programming language is well known as a powerful tool in
> automation, scripting, and high performance scientific computing. In our
> experience, countless hours have been saved in automating building
> simulation tasks, allowing us to focus more on creating quality building
> models and accurate performance results.
> >
> > We believe that Python is positioned to make a big difference in the
> building simulation community. To get started, we have the following offer:
> Send us your scripting problems, and we will solve them for you!
> >
> > In this phase, we are interested most in small well defined tasks.
> Example problems would be;
> >
> > "In my research, I need to parametrize 100 EnergyPlus files with
> different U-Values"
> > "We need to convert 1000 files from format *.yyy to format *.qqq"
> > "Our company produces a report for each project, we use Excel to
> calculate the average Lux levels from radiance, it's easy but boring after
> 100 projects"
> > Or anything else where you think - "I wish I had an intern do this for
> me..." (Maybe you are this intern...)
> >
> > Help us by defining your problem with steps taken and the desired
> result. Send them to:
> > projects at pythonpoweredbuilding.com
> >
> > For all problems received, we will recommend ideas, methods, and
> modules. We will furthermore select 3 projects to solve and feature in our
> Workshop during the Building Simulation 2013 conference in France next
> August http://www.bs2013.fr/. We will also feature these problems on our
> website; http://www.pythonpoweredbuilding.com.
> >
> > Problems must therefore be free of any intellectual property and will be
> open to all. For more information and more about us, please visit
> http://www.pythonpoweredbuilding.com. If you are already a convert and
> want to get involved, contact us at info at pythonpoweredbuilding.com.
> >
> > Please excuse cross posting, we will direct further updates primarily to
> BLDG-SIM.
> >
> > Happy simulating,
> >
> > Marcus Jones, Clayton Miller, and Alan Jackson - Python evangelists
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