Thursday, January 17, 2008

Framing the house...with 1's and 0's

I got a deal on some off the shelf 3d architecture software and spent the last 2 days making a model of the house. The software has some limits (most annoyingly that its roof choices do not allow the modeling of a celestory), but overall has been useful to get a sense of exactly how much extra room we need, and the ability to walk through the layout. What it lacks is the ability to simulate heat and lighting models (which is what I'm really interested in)

Thankfully "heed" available here does analysis of this, and its free! I havent tried it yet but I will report on my results.

Another interesting concept I have come across in my webtravels: waste heat reclaimation. More on that later.

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