Monday, February 22, 2010

Sky View Factor

You need to start thinking about how to evaluate your urban morphologies. One interesting measure that is used a lot is called the 'Sky View Factor'. It is the percentage of visible sky that you can see from any point. 100% indicates that you can see the whole sky (i.e. a half dome), and 0% indicates that you can't see any sky.

I have created an otl for calculating SVF. Here it is.

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