- CONVR 2023 - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality
- Edited by Pietro Capone, Vito Getuli, Farzad Pour Rahimian, Nashwan Dawood, Alessandro Bruttini, Tommaso Sorbi
Visualization of Weather-Aware Ambient Heat Risks With Global Illumination in Game Engine
- Naotaka Sumida
- Taira Ozaki
- Satoshi Kubota
- Hiroshige Dan
- Yoshihiro Yasumuro
- © 2023 Author(s) |
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0289-3.13
In recent years, the risk of heat stroke has been increasing due to global warming and other factors, and the Ministry of the Environment has been using the heat index to alert people in urban areas. Still, citizens need help knowing the detailed risk information for their neighborhoods. The heat index considers the human body's heat balance and is measured with specialized instruments, so comprehensive and high-density measurement is difficult. In this research, by using global illumination (GI) and primary weather data obtained from the Open Weather Map API for each area, we can realistically render the sunlight condition considering the weather and map and visualize the heat index per pixel based on shaded CG. Furthermore, by reconstructing urban 3D geometry from Google Maps, we have developed a system that visualizes the ever-changing heat index distribution for an arbitrary location in real time. The system has shown the possibility of reducing the number of heat stroke patients by using this system
- Keywords:
- heat index,
- WBGT (wet bulb globe temperature),
- real-time global illumination,
- game engine,
Kansai University, Japan
Kansai University, Japan - ORCID: 0000-0002-2539-3707
Kansai University, Japan
Kansai University, Japan - ORCID: 0000-0002-2270-6675
Kansai University, Japan - ORCID: 0000-0001-8317-3123
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Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Visualization of Weather-Aware Ambient Heat Risks With Global Illumination in Game Engine
Authors
Naotaka Sumida, Taira Ozaki, Satoshi Kubota, Hiroshige Dan, Yoshihiro Yasumuro
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0289-3.13
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2023
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© 2023 Author(s)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title
CONVR 2023 - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality
Book Subtitle
Managing the Digital Transformation of Construction Industry
Editors
Pietro Capone, Vito Getuli, Farzad Pour Rahimian, Nashwan Dawood, Alessandro Bruttini, Tommaso Sorbi
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2023
Copyright Information
© 2023 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0289-3
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979-12-215-0289-3
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979-12-215-0257-2
Series Title
Proceedings e report
Series ISSN
2704-601X
Series E-ISSN
2704-5846