Grasshopper example: Glare using Radiance/Honeybee

A simple example of how to set up a glare analysis using Honeybee, an interface for providing Radiance daylight analysis in Grasshopper.

Grasshopper canvas for Honeybee glare analysis

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The simple building used for analysis

glare example Grasshopper Radiance

Using EmbryoViz to visualise how a user would perceive daylight and glare inside the building

How to install Honeybee for Grasshopper

Honeybee is a plugin for Grasshopper for daylight analysis, created by Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari. Honeybee links to third party analysis tools in order to do its calculations. So in order to install Honeybee, we also need to install these tools. This can be a little fiddly – this guide shows how I got round it. Continue reading How to install Honeybee for Grasshopper