file.close() return dataOut def parseEx_line(string, col): #split this string using whitespace as delimiter data = [int(n) for n in string.split()] return data[col-1] #return only the first three values fileName = "dirNormals.txt" number_of_header_lines = 2 columnNumber = 4 #the column that we want to extract dirNormalData = parseEx_file(fileName, number_of_header_lines, columnNumber) # Since I've chosen a file that has complete data, i.e. 8760 hours in a year, I can easily # extract out the direct normal for any (whole) hour of the year import solarGeom as sg date = "3/23" h = "13:00" day = sg.calc_dayOfYear(date) hour = sg.calc_hourDecimal(h) hourYear = (day-1)*24 + int(hour)-1 print "Direct Normal Irradiation on "+date+" at "+h+" is "+str(dirNormalData[hourYear])+" w/m^2" # we don't have data that gives us continuous measurement between hours. You can either decide # to just take the data on the whole hour -- i.e. 13:30 has the same data as at 13:00 -- or # you can interpolate the data
#calcSunPath: Uses the solarGeometry module to draw out sun path for a given location between a start and end time import solarGeom as sg import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs #latitude = 42.5 #longitude = 143.28 #timezone = 9.0 latitude = 45.36 longitude = -79.20 timezone = -5.0 dateStart = "1/1" dateEnd = "12/31" dayStart = sg.calc_dayOfYear(dateStart) dayEnd = sg.calc_dayOfYear(dateEnd) startTime= "7:00" endTime = "19:30" hourStart = sg.calc_hourDecimal(startTime) hourEnd = sg.calc_hourDecimal(endTime) #print hourStart, hourEnd #print sg.calc_solarAngles(latitude, longitude, timezone, dayNow, hourStart) N = 20 R = 20 #for i in range(N+1): # sun = sg.calc_sunVector(latitude, longitude, timezone, dayStart, hourStart+i*(hourEnd-hourStart)/N)
#calcSunPath: Uses the solarGeometry module to draw out sun path for a given location between a start and end time import solarGeom as sg import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs #latitude = 42.5 #longitude = 143.28 #timezone = 9.0 latitude = 45.36 longitude = -79.20 timezone = -5.0 dateStart = "1/1" dateEnd = "12/31" dayStart = sg.calc_dayOfYear(dateStart) dayEnd = sg.calc_dayOfYear(dateEnd) startTime = "7:00" endTime = "19:30" hourStart = sg.calc_hourDecimal(startTime) hourEnd = sg.calc_hourDecimal(endTime) #print hourStart, hourEnd #print sg.calc_solarAngles(latitude, longitude, timezone, dayNow, hourStart) N = 20 R = 20 #for i in range(N+1): # sun = sg.calc_sunVector(latitude, longitude, timezone, dayStart, hourStart+i*(hourEnd-hourStart)/N)
