Modelling the sun’s reflection into our apartment with Python
We moved apartments right before the COVID lockdowns began. Being stuck inside all day, I’ve started noticing things I probably would have missed in my regular routine. One of these things is that our east facing apartment gets lit up in the afternoon from the sun’s reflection from a particularly reflective building. The first time it happened was quite a surprise and it quickly passed. However, over the coming days, the glowing light started lasting longer.
It turns out the culprit was a particularly reflective building located a couple of blocks away. As the sun sets in the afternoon, our apartment is in the right position to collect the light which is bounced off the building.
The path of the sun through the sky changes throughout the year and so only a certain position would reflect light into our apartment. This then begs the following questions:
I’m sure there are many other things an architect or designer would be able to take into account, but this is going to be a decent first attempt.
