Foundation Classes

The OpenCSP foundation classes provide a general-purpose representation for a hierarchy of collector objects: Mirror, Facet, FacetEnsemble, Heliostat, SolarField. These offer a variety of supporting functions, including the rendering operations shown here. The OpenCSP foundation classes also include utilities such as ray tracing and video handling.

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Location

• OpenCSP_Code: opencsp/doc/source/example/csp/base_classes_and_ray_trace.ipynb
  https://github.com/sandialabs/OpenCSP/blob/main/doc/source/example/csp/base_classes_and_ray_trace.ipynb
• OpenCSP_Code: opencsp/example/mirror/example_MirrorOutput.py
  https://opencsp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/example/mirror/config.html
• OpenCSP_Code: opencsp/example/solarfield/example_SolarFieldOutput.py
  https://opencsp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/example/solarfield/config.html
• OpenCSP_Code: opencsp/example/raytrace/example_RayTraceOutput.py 

Status

Operational, extensions welcome

Documentation

• OpenCSP Team. OpenCSP Base Classes and Ray Tracing. Jupyter notebook; T. J. Larkin originating author. OpenCSP_Code: opencsp/doc/source/example/csp/base_classes_and_ray_trace.ipynb
• https://opencsp.readthedocs.org/