Last week I mentioned the release of VASA 0.2.0, which includes some new nodes and samples that raise some really interesting possibilities. I couldn’t help but come back to the “sensor coverage” sample (named 12-VASA-Sensor-Coverage.dyn), in particular, as I can see so many possibilities for its use.
Here’s the description Rhys Goldstein included in the sample:
A demonstration of how to combine sample point generation and proximity operations to select locations on walls and ceilings using the Voxel-based Architectural Space Analysis (VASA) package. In this example, the locations are used to place sensors and approximate their coverage.
First, sample points are generated using a path model and a set of parameters. The points are filtered to include only indoor locations.
Next, the points closest to walls are used to place wall-mounted sensors, each with a horizontally oriented pyramidal volume of coverage. The wall offset slider controls the fraction of wall-mounted…