What I mean by "Average" Light/shadow:
Imagine that the more solar radiation a point on a surface (in/on a building) received (during an entire day), the "hotter" the color of that point got in the model. So if (over the course of the day) a certain square inch on a wall received x units of solar radiation, that square on the surface would be light-blue in color on the model. In the same model if a particular square inch of floor material received 5x units of solar radiation during the day, that square inch of surface would be represented as the color orange. Then another square inch of surface on the roof might have 15x units of solar radiation over the course of the day, and that square inch of surface would be represented in the model as a red square. This way you would model the building based on the amount of radiation received throughout an entire day rather than the amount of sun the house is receiving at a single moment in time. This would be a better measure of the effects a change in the models form has, because it wouldn't exclude the radiation lost at 2pm when the sun went behind a neighboring building, or the extra sun received in the early morning as the sun is rising, etc.. Ideally this type of "model view option" of the model could be turned off and on as easily as the shadows are turned off and on in a 3d model. Does this make sense?
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