Ladybug and Honeybee are environmental plug-ins for Grasshopper to help designers create an environmentally-conscious architectural design. They were originally developed by Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudasri but are open-source and maintained my several people, including Chris Mackey.
Like many of the other Grasshopper plug-ins, they are both named after animals. The name ‘Ladybug’ was originally chosen due to the ladybug’s weather forecasting ability. Ladybug allows you to import standard EnergyPlus Weather files (*epw) into Grasshopper and provides a variety of 3D interactive graphics/metrics, including: Sun-path, wind-rose, radiation-roses, radiation analysis, shadow studies, and view analysis.
Honeybee on the other hand, connects Grasshopper to EnergyPlus, Radiance, Daysim and OpenStudio for building energy and daylighting simulation. The Honeybee project intends to make many of the features of these simulation tools available in a parametric way. The name…
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