I hacked up a model from here:
I have no insights to offer about solar radiation, sorry. Looks like you did a good job with shadows, which I seem to have broken somehow… I was playing around with Mesh Shadow which basically produces outlines of the shadow areas. In the process, I tried a few things.
Used Solid Union on the stack of boxes so I have only one shadow instead of one for each box.
Added a cyan group to “ignore first and last” points on the sun path, as they seemed to cause problems.
Added optional Plane Normal …
Based on a simplified sun path model created three days earlier:
What does “average” sun path mean? Average over summer and winter? Try that in Alaska!
Ladybug aside, here is a simple model for sun path. On the ‘Winter|Summer’ slider, zero is winter, 0.5 are the equinoxes and one is summer:
[sun_path_2019Nov9a]
sun_path_2019Nov9a.gh (10.1 KB) (DEPRECATED, see below)
P.S. Sorry, I messed up instead of ‘±tilt angle’, I used ‘±tilt/2’. Fixed in version ‘b’ below:
[sun_path_2019Nov9b]
sun_path_2019Nov9b.gh (10.1 KB)
I realize this is overly simplis…
And assumed you wanted to preserve the relative rotation of all 240 of your panels? So they all rotate together, keeping similar shadows throughout the day (‘dawn/dusk’ slider in blue group):
sun_path_2020Jan19a.gh (433.8 KB)
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