Welcome to T4SU’s Documentation page.
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What is T4SU ?
T4SU (Tools for SketchUp) is a SketchUp plugin, implemented in Ruby, that gives you the capability:
- To couple SketchUp (the well-known CAAD tool) with the SOLENE simulation software developed in the CERMA lab.,
- To achieve several (visual-based) morphological analyses in the urban fabric.
The analyses can be further split into two groups :
- subjective analyses, pertaining to first-person visibility studies such as isovists
- objective analyses, pertaining to sky views on one hand, and sun views on the other.
Related Scientific Publishings
T4SU has already been used in multiple scientific and academic papers, including :
- Signorelli, V., & Leduc, T. (2015). Utilisation du socle 3D CityGML Nantes – Secteur centre-ville. Nantes, France. http://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.4320.1764
- Signorelli, V., & Leduc, T. (2016). De l’influence de la végétation et du relief dans la simulation de la ville à l’échelle du quartier. In J.-P. Goulette & B. Ferries (Eds.), SCAN’16 Toulouse – Séminaire de conception architecturale numérique : Mètre et paramètre, mesure et démesure du projet (pp. 125–134). Toulouse, France: PUN – Presses Universitaires de Nancy, Editions Universitaires de Lorraine. Retrieved from https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01363682/document
- Signorelli, V., Leduc, T., & Chauvat, G. (2016). How far is far enough? Towards an adaptive and “site-centric” modelling integrating co-visibility constraints for optimal land use. In J.-S. Bailly, D. Griffith, & D. Josselin (Eds.), 12th Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (pp. 233–240). Montpellier, France. Retrieved from https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01347157/document
- Signorelli, V., Leduc, T., & Tourre, V. (2016). Ego-city – Automatic textual description of urban ambiences’ factors. In N. Rémy & N. Tixier (Eds.), Ambiances, demain | Ambiances, tomorrow | Ατμόσφαιρες, Αύριο, actes of the 3rd International Congress on Ambiances (pp. 541–546). Volos, Greece: International Ambiances Network & University of Thessalie, Department of architecture
T4SU was also presented during the Journées Solene 2016. You can find more information on
https://solene2016.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/ResumesSeminaireSolene2016.pdf
Citing T4SU
If you use T4SU in the context of your research, please cite the following paper :
K. Hartwell and T. Leduc. T4SU : analyses et représentations des vues du ciel , du soleil et des saillances paysagères dans le contexte d’un outil de CAO. In S. Bimonte, T. Devogele, and A. Hassan, editors, Atelier session démonstration – Conférence Spatial Analysis and Geomatics – SAGEO 2016, page 7, Nice, France, 2016.
https://sageo2016.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/7. hal-01402727
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