Embree-based ray tracer for photosynthetic yields in plant canopies
- Free software: MIT license
- Documentation: https://cropsinsilico.github.io/hothouse
- Multi-bounce ray tracing based on surface reflectance/transmittance
- Ray geometry/intensity based on solar model for a given time & location
- Per-component collision tracking
- Support for different ray geometries: orthographic, projection, spherical
This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.
This work was supported by funding from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) through Grant 515760 and Cost Share C2252 with the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE) and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s DataDriven Discovery Initiative through Grant GBMF4561 to Matthew Turk, and the CROPPS NSF STC (Grant No. DBI-2019674).