Pollination is the only cloud-enabled platform for environmental simulation that is built to support customizable "recipes". We believe that a simulation platform should give you the freedom to do what you need rather than forcing you to fit your needs into a black box that you cannot control.

If you cannot find what you need from the available recipes you can create your own recipes from scratch or you can modify one of the available recipes to fit your needs. You are able to see through the whole process and validate the results for every step of the simulations.

The benefits of using recipes include:

Yes! Currently, we have plugins for Grasshopper, Rhino, and Revit. Additionally, you can take advantage of Ladybug Tools SDKs and Pollination Cloud’s API to develop your own plugins just like how we developed the current Pollination Cloud plugins.

The answer depends on each specific recipe. However, most of our out-of-the-box recipes are intended to work with the Honeybee model JSON schema and/or Dragonfly model JSON schema. You can use Ladybug Tools plugins for Grasshopper, Rhino or Revit to generate these files.

Pollination recipes are environmental and energy simulation workflows broken down into modular building blocks that can seamlessly be reconfigured, extended and plugged into your favorite modeling tools.

A recipe can be created by defining a series of simple, inter-related commands, corresponding to specific simulation processes, written in plain text. Pollination uses a workflow language, called Queenbee, based on the YAML format, specified here: Queenbee repository.

We will be releasing more recipes. Let us know which recipes would be most useful to your simulation needs.

‍Business and enterprise accounts allows you to creates teams under your organization. You can add internal and external collaborators to your teams and control their access to projects and recipes inside your organization.

‍Pollination is designed to extend the greatness of Ladybug Tools to cloud and make it easier to scale your studies and share your knowledge. Pollination provides easy access to high performance cloud computing, additional recipes and the ability to collaborate online.

Yes. Recipe inputs are not limited to Ladybug Tools formats. Depending on the recipe you should be able to use other standard file formants such as IDF, OSM or Rad files. Moreover Pollination provides a REST API which can be used with or without Ladybug Tools Plugins. See our API documentation here.

Education is a core value of our team. We are exploring the best approach to provide an educational subscription to Pollination for instructors. If you are an instructor and think Pollination can be helpful to your students, get in touch and let us know about your needs.

Currently, we do not support self-managed hosting. If you are interested in using Pollination but need self-managed hosting, get in touch with us and let us know about your specific needs.

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