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When dinner table is open for dinner outside

Each month read on its 15th · 2026
Dinner outside, through the year. Dinner table cannot be read for dinner outside in any month yet. 0 months open, 0 shut, 12 unanswered.JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec0months open
  • Works
  • Tight
  • No
  • Unanswered

Rings run from 3 pm at the centre to 11 pm at the edge.

Dinner table cannot be read for dinner outside in any month yet.

  • All year: cannot be answered, because privacy exposure has not been recorded here.
The same year as a table
MonthOpenUsable hoursWhat decides it
January——Privacy exposure closes it
February——Privacy exposure closes it
March——Privacy exposure closes it
April——Privacy exposure closes it
May——Privacy exposure closes it
June——Privacy exposure closes it
July——Privacy exposure closes it
August——Privacy exposure closes it
September——Privacy exposure closes it
October——Privacy exposure closes it
November——Privacy exposure closes it
December——Privacy exposure closes it
Open southern skySouth-facing house18 ftDinner tableN16 ft
BuildingNot yoursCanopyShadow nowCan see inProposed

Reading at

7:33 PM·September
September 14 · Dinner table

The evidence behind this whole day is thin, so nothing on the strip is marked out as worse than the rest. The shape of the day is still the model’s best reading; the confidence in it is low, and it stays low until something it needs is measured.

Dinner table cannot be answered for dinner outside yet.

Nothing in September clears what dinner outside needs here.

The same day as a table
The same day hour by hour, in text.
HourSunVerdictConfidenceSun position
12:00 AMdarkUnanswereda starting hypothesis
3:00 AMdarkUnanswereda starting hypothesis
6:00 AMdarkUnanswereda starting hypothesis
7:00 AMin sunUnanswereda starting hypothesis3° up, bearing 88°
8:00 AMin sunUnanswereda starting hypothesis15° up, bearing 98°
9:00 AMin sunUnanswereda starting hypothesis26° up, bearing 109°
10:00 AMin sunUnanswereda starting hypothesis36° up, bearing 121°
11:00 AMin sunUnanswereda starting hypothesis45° up, bearing 137°
12:00 PMin sunUnanswereda starting hypothesis51° up, bearing 157°
1:00 PMin sunUnanswereda starting hypothesis53° up, bearing 182°
2:00 PMin sunUnanswereda starting hypothesis51° up, bearing 206°
3:00 PMin sunUnanswereda starting hypothesis44° up, bearing 226°
4:00 PMin sunUnanswereda starting hypothesis35° up, bearing 241°
5:00 PMin sunUnanswereda starting hypothesis24° up, bearing 253°
6:00 PMin sunUnanswereda starting hypothesis13° up, bearing 263°
7:00 PMin sunUnanswereda starting hypothesis1° up, bearing 273°
9:00 PMdarkUnanswereda starting hypothesis

Sit down, eat, and still want to be there ninety minutes later.

Dinner outside

We cannot say yet whether Dinner table works for dinner outside, because privacy exposure is still unanswered.

Still unanswered:Privacy exposureNoise

Confidence low (38%). Treat this as a starting hypothesis, not an answer.

What this answer was built from
  • Use
    Dinner outside
  • Place
    Dinner table
  • Weather
    High desert, cold winters, intense sun (scenario shape), scenario (from a published source)
  • Method
    Traced geometry and radiation at this hour, measured against what this use needs
    • Try a changeMake a document

    How well this place is described

    Quick
    1. Quick
    2. Mapped
    3. Annotated
    4. Measured

    The sun can be placed. Angles, sunrise and sunset, and the shape of the day are right, and everything that depends on what stands in the way is a guess.

    It cannot tell you when your patio is in shade, because nothing has been drawn that could cast any.

    To reach Mapped

    • The things in the way: 1 object drawn. The house counts, and so does the neighbour's.

    What that buys: Real shade. The difference between being told the sun is up at five and being told your table is in shadow from four.

    Everything that was checked
    • Quick A place on the earth: Denver (demonstration), with a time zone, which is what makes an hour an hour.
    • Quick Somewhere to read: 1 spot marked. A reading is a height at a place, and moving it moves the answer.
    • Mapped The things in the way: 1 object drawn. The house counts, and so does the neighbour's.
    • Mapped What is underfoot: 1 of 1 readings sit on a mapped surface.
    • Mapped Where the property ends: Drawn, so the product can tell you when the cheapest fix stands on someone else's land.
    • Annotated Photographs of the actual place: None annotated. A photograph is how a drawn height gets checked against a real one.
    • Annotated Photographs that know where they were taken from: No photograph has a position and a bearing, so what is marked on them cannot become a measurement.
    • Annotated Who can see in: Nobody marked. Privacy is a question about who sees in from where, and the product will not invent one.
    • Measured Heights off a tape: All 1 objects are marked as measured.
    • Measured Something checked against the day: Nothing has been checked against a real afternoon. The model is unopposed, which is not the same as being right.

    What to measure next

    Ranked by how far the answer moves, not by a checklist
    1. 1Who can actually see inSit in the chair

      Sit where you actually sit and look around. Mark the one window or path you can see a person from. Until one exists, privacy is a question we are not answering rather than one that is fine.

      This is not a refinement. Nothing can answer this question until somebody marks it.

      Mark it on the plan

      Currently assuming: nobody is overlooking this. Tested across one confirmed observer changes the whole privacy answer.

    2. 2What the paving actually isOne photoWetness ±25

      Photograph the paving next to something white. How dark it is decides both how hot it gets underfoot and how much light it throws back up at a seated person.

      The overall verdict does not move, but wetness changes by 25 points, so it matters for that question specifically.

      Mark it on the planAdd photo evidence

      reflectance 0.1 → unknown 91 · reflectance 0.25 → unknown 87 · reflectance 0.45 → unknown 81

      Currently assuming: reflectance 0.28, assumed. Tested across 0.1 to 0.45.

    What the place is doing at 7:33pm in September

    High desert, cold winters, intense sun (scenario shape).

    What it feels like

    comfortable

    62.2°F

    Felt temperature · 32 on the reporting scale

    It feels about 5 degrees cooler than the air, near 62°F.

    What is doing it

    • Air movement

      +2.5°

    • How much sky is overhead

      −1.3°
    How this was worked out
  • Air
    67.7°F from High desert, cold winters, intense sun (scenario shape), scenario (from a published source)
  • Radiant
    48.4°F mean radiant temperature
  • Method
    Six-directional radiation integration, then ASHRAE operative temperature (from a published source)

    • Direct sun

    after dark

    0 W/m²

    Beam reaching this point · 0 on the reporting scale

    The sun is down.

    How this was worked out
  • Sun
    below the horizon
  • Traced
    0% of the beam reaches this point

    • Glare

    none

    0

    out of 100

    Nothing bright is in the line of sight at this hour.

    How this was worked out
  • Facing
    230deg

    • Privacy exposure

    Unanswered

    No observer has been placed yet. Privacy is a question about who can see in from where, and until one is marked there is nothing to answer.

    Wind

    light

    2.2 mph

    Wind at the seat · 11 on the reporting scale

    Wind here is light.

    How this was worked out
  • Reference
    6.6 mph at 10 m from High desert, cold winters, intense sun (scenario shape), scenario (from a published source)
  • At seat height
    2.2 mph before shelter
  • Shelter
    0% removed by what stands upwind

    • View

    open

    100

    out of 100

    The view from this seat is essentially intact.

    What is doing it

    • Open southern sky

      +100
    How this was worked out
  • Corridors
    Open southern sky
  • Method
    Rays sampled across each corridor's angular window

    • Surface heat

    comfortable

    67.7°F

    Surface temperature · 10 on the reporting scale

    The surface is running about 68°F.

    How this was worked out
  • Surface
    South patio
  • Method
    Absorbed shortwave against air temperature, flattened by air movement (from a published source)

    • Wetness

    dries-fast

    1 x

    Drying time against the open · 7 on the reporting scale

    Sun and air movement here are enough to dry the surface at an ordinary rate.

    How this was worked out
  • Drying rate
    0.000 in/hour here
  • Method
    Penman combination equation on the radiation and air actually reaching this spot (from a published source)

    • Light after dark

    Unanswered

    No exterior or window light has been placed yet, so what changes after dark is unanswered.

    Ask something else about this place

    Who can see me?

    The sightline, the smallest screen that closes it, and what it costs you in view.

    What grows here?

    Usable light across a day, not the label on the tag.

    I already own this. Where should it go?

    The same reasoning backwards: every spot you have marked, ranked for one plant.

    What survives here?

    What this exposure does to the things you leave out.

    Dinner outside tonight?

    The forecast, read against this specific seat.

    What changes through the year?

    The same layout in May, August and October.

    What changes after dark?

    Light, glare and who can see in once the sun has gone.

    Everything on the plan, in text
    ThingReadingNote
    South-facing house18 ft100 per cent solid.