Making use of Point Cloud for Generating Subtractive Solar Envelopes

As a contextual and passive design strategy, solar envelopes play a great role in<br/>determining building mass based on desirable sun access during the predefined<br/>period. With the rapid evolution of digital tools, the design method of solar<br/>envelopes varies in different computational platforms. However, current<br/>approaches still lack...

Toward an Environmental Database: Exploring the material properties from the point cloud data of the existing environment

The utilization of point cloud as a 3D laser scanning product has reached across<br/>multi-disciplines in terms of data processing, data visualization, and data<br/>analysis. This study particularly investigates further the use of typical attributes<br/>of raw point cloud data consisting of XYZ (position information), RGB (colour<br/>information...