raytracemrt

Python codes to calculate the Mean Radiant Temperature from thermal scans and geometry point cloud

Getting started

These instructions on written for Python on windows.

1. Install Python 3.11 (https://www.python.org/)
2. Create a virtual environment with 'py -m venv ray' this will create a virtual environment in the directory ray of your current directory (https://realpython.com/python-virtual-environments-a-primer/#deactivate-it)
3. Activate the environment ray\Scripts\activate
4. 'pip install raytracemrt'
5. download the example file here: 'https://github.com/chenkianwee/raytracemrt/tree/main/example/ply' right click on the file and 'save link as'
6. execute the program with the example with these parameters:

   raytracemrt -s your/directory/example1_therm.ply -x 0 0 1.5 -d 4 5 3.5 -z 0.3 -g 0.5 0.5 1 0.5 
   

7. go to the directory where you have downloaded the example file. All the results will be in a folder called 'example1_therm_result'.
8. the folder will have 5 folders to store all the intermediate results. Check the mrt folder to get the mrt results.