Room for Drama
Room for DramaOutside, Actually.

Atlanta (demonstration)

The carport we are trying to eat in

DemonstrationEdit the plan

When the table under the roof is open for dinner outside

Each month read on its 30th, or the last day of a shorter month · 2026
Dinner outside, through the year. The table under the roof 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. Schematic: A shape of the facts, not a picture of a particular date or a measured outline. Each month is its 30th, or the last day of a shorter month, not a promise about the other days.

The table under the roof 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 30——Privacy exposure closes it
February 28——Privacy exposure closes it
March 30——Privacy exposure closes it
April 30——Privacy exposure closes it
May 30——Privacy exposure closes it
June 30——Privacy exposure closes it
July 30——Privacy exposure closes it
August 30——Privacy exposure closes it
September 30——Privacy exposure closes it
October 30——Privacy exposure closes it
November 30——Privacy exposure closes it
December 30——Privacy exposure closes it

The table under the roof for Dinner outside. October 30, 2026 at 4:00 AM, America/New_York. Now on this date. Confidence low. Cause: What it feels like is what stops it.

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

Dinner outside

We cannot say yet whether The table under the roof works for dinner outside, because privacy exposure is still unanswered.

“Unanswered” means missing evidence prevents a reliable verdict. The questions that need answering are listed below.

  • Past the limit What it feels like is about 51°F — 8°F under (at least 59°F)Estimate: Worked out, but at least one input was assumed rather than measured.

    The air is 62.2°F. It feels about 11.2 degrees cooler than the air, near 51°F.

    Nobody finishes a meal in a seat that is cooking.

Still unanswered:Privacy exposureViewNoise
Why these are unanswered
  • Privacy exposure. 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.
  • View. No view worth keeping has been marked, so there is nothing to weigh a screen against yet.
  • Noise. Nobody has told us what the noise is like here, and it is not something geometry can infer.

What would change this. This stays unanswered until privacy exposure is known. 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.

Confidence low (30%). Treat this as a starting hypothesis, not an answer.

What this answer was built from
Use
Dinner outside
Place
The table under the roof
Weather
Hot and humid, long cooling season (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

What next here

Testing a change

3 of 8 milestones. One thing is still in the way of privacy, sightlines and screening advice.

  1. Getting an honest answer3 of 4 done
    • Placed on the earth — done. The sun is in the right part of the sky for this address.
    • A spot to read — done. 1 spot is being read.
    • What stands in the way — done. 4 things are drawn, so the shade is worked out rather than assumed.
    • Who can see in — not done. Privacy is the most common reason a terrace goes unused, and it cannot be answered without knowing which windows look at it.
  2. Testing a changeyou are here0 of 2 done
    • A change tested — not done. Testing a change before buying it is the cheapest part of the whole exercise.
    • A forecast checked — not done. A forecast nobody goes back and checks is a guess with a date on it.
  3. Proving it well enough to spend money0 of 2 done
    • Corrected against reality — not done. After a couple of rechecks the model can be corrected against this specific garden.
    • Photographed — not done. A photograph is what turns a drawing somebody sketched into a drawing somebody can check.
  1. Mark the windows that look at this spot

    Being overlooked is one of the most common reasons a good terrace goes unused, and it is the one reading here that cannot be inferred from anything else.

    a tap per windowneeded for privacy, sightlines and screening advice
  2. Get this place to Annotated

    A photographic check on the mapped sightlines and geometry. That makes privacy estimates more credible, but does not replace measured dimensions. Right now: Sightlines drawn from mapped observers remain provisional until their positions and heights are checked. The drawn heights have not been verified against the actual place. What is missing: Photographs of the actual place: None annotated. A photograph is how a drawn height gets checked against a real one. 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. Who can see in: Nobody marked. Privacy is a question about who sees in from where, and the product will not invent one.

    3 things left
  3. Test a change before you buy anything

    The plan is good enough to ask what a screen, a tree or a canopy would actually do here — including the ones that turn out to be a waste of money.

    a few minutes, nothing bought
3 more things worth doing here
  1. Add a second spot and compare the two

    One spot gives a verdict; two give a reason. Most of what is worth learning here is why one corner works at six and the other never does.

    one tap, then read across
  2. See how this spot changes through the year

    A terrace that works in July can be unusable in September for reasons that have nothing to do with temperature. The same geometry read in four seasons is the cheapest insight here.

    a read, nothing to enter
  3. Photograph the spot and mark what is in shot

    A photograph is what separates a drawing you sketched from a drawing somebody else can check. It is also how heights get corrected without a ladder.

    one photograph

How well this place is described

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

Shade, sky view and daily light are computed from the geometry on this plan. Unmeasured dimensions remain estimates, not verified measurements.

Sightlines drawn from mapped observers remain provisional until their positions and heights are checked. The drawn heights have not been verified against the actual place.

To reach Annotated

  • Photographs of the actual place: None annotated. A photograph is how a drawn height gets checked against a real one.
  • 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.
  • Who can see in: Nobody marked. Privacy is a question about who sees in from where, and the product will not invent one.

What that buys: A photographic check on the mapped sightlines and geometry. That makes privacy estimates more credible, but does not replace measured dimensions.

Everything that was checked
  • Quick A place on the earth: Atlanta (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: 4 objects 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: 1 of 4 objects are measured. The remaining 3 are this product's own inference, so no figure here is a survey figure yet.
  • 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 you are looking atSit in the chair

    Mark the direction of the view worth keeping. No view has been marked yet, so nothing weighs what the view is worth, and a screen that blocks it looks free.

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

    Mark it on the plan

    Currently assuming: no view is being protected. Tested across one corridor changes what screening is worth doing.

Drawn
Worked out
The slabThe house19 ft 8 inCarport roof9 ft 2 inCorner post8 ft 2 inCorner post8 ft 2 inThe tableunder the roof9121518N16 ft
BuildingNot yours (dashed edge)CanopySun’s path today (schematic)Can see inProposed

To scale · to the measurements given: Drawn to scale from the measurements given. Not a survey. It is not a survey.

Reading at

4:00 AM·October

The sun is down.

October 30 · The table under the roof Schematic: A shape of the facts, not a picture of a particular date or a measured outline.
  • Unanswered (hatched)

The sun reaches the table under the roof at 7:56 AM. The table under the roof loses the sun at 9:39 AM because of the Carport roof.

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.

The table under the roof cannot be answered for dinner outside yet.

Nothing in October 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
8:00 AMin sunUnanswereda starting hypothesis1° up, bearing 107°
9:00 AMin sunUnanswereda starting hypothesis12° up, bearing 116°
10:00 AMshaded by Carport roofUnanswereda starting hypothesis23° up, bearing 126°
11:00 AMshaded by Carport roofUnanswereda starting hypothesis32° up, bearing 139°
12:00 PMshaded by Carport roofUnanswereda starting hypothesis39° up, bearing 155°
1:00 PMshaded by Carport roofUnanswereda starting hypothesis42° up, bearing 173°
2:00 PMshaded by Carport roofUnanswereda starting hypothesis41° up, bearing 193°
3:00 PMshaded by Carport roofUnanswereda starting hypothesis37° up, bearing 210°
4:00 PMshaded by The houseUnanswereda starting hypothesis29° up, bearing 225°
5:00 PMshaded by The houseUnanswereda starting hypothesis19° up, bearing 237°
6:00 PMshaded by The houseUnanswereda starting hypothesis8° up, bearing 247°
9:00 PMdarkUnanswereda starting hypothesis
When the sun arrives and leaves, to the minute.
WhenWhat happens
7:56 AMThe sun reaches the table under the roof at 7:56 AM.
9:39 AMThe table under the roof loses the sun at 9:39 AM because of the Carport roof.

Direct sun at the table under the roof, month by month

Schematic · computed: Computed from this place's own plan and climate, then drawn as a shape rather than to scale.

The table under the roof gets the most direct sun in January, about 2 hours on the 30th, or the last day of a shorter month, and the least in February, about 1 hours.

  • Sun reaches the spot (solid)
  • Sun up, something in the way (lined)
  • Sun down (empty)
The grid, in a table
Hours of direct sun at The table under the roof on the 30th, or the last day of a shorter month, and when.
MonthDirect sunWhen
January2 h8:00 AM–10:00 AM
February1 h8:00 AM–9:00 AM
March2 h8:00 AM–10:00 AM
April2 h7:00 AM–9:00 AM
May2 h7:00 AM–9:00 AM
June2 h7:00 AM–9:00 AM
July2 h7:00 AM–9:00 AM
August2 h8:00 AM–10:00 AM
September2 h8:00 AM–10:00 AM
October2 h8:00 AM–10:00 AM
November2 h8:00 AM–10:00 AM
December2 h8:00 AM–10:00 AM
The sun’s path on the plan, October 30, in a table
Where the sun is at each hour it is up.
HourComes fromHeight
8:00 AME (107°)1° up
9:00 AMSE (116°)12° up
10:00 AMSE (126°)23° up
11:00 AMSE (139°)32° up
12:00 PMSE (155°)39° up
1:00 PMS (173°)42° up
2:00 PMS (193°)41° up
3:00 PMSW (210°)37° up
4:00 PMSW (225°)29° up
5:00 PMSW (237°)19° up
6:00 PMSW (247°)8° up

What the place is doing at 4am in October

Hot and humid, long cooling season (scenario shape).

What it feels like

Estimate: Worked out, but at least one input was assumed rather than measured.cool

51°F

Felt temperature

The bar is the 0–100 reporting scale, mapped from the reading above: 0 is none of it, 100 the top of the scale.

The air is 62.2°F. It feels about 11.2 degrees cooler than the air, near 51°F.

What is doing it

What makes this reading 51°FA running total. It starts at 55°F with every named influence removed, then each influence is added in turn.55°Fshaded air−8°FHow much s…+4°FAir moveme…51°Fwhat it is

Take every named influence away and this reads 55°F. How much sky is overhead takes off 8°F, Air movement adds 4°F. That lands at 51°F.

How this was worked out
Air
62.2°F from Hot and humid, long cooling season (scenario shape), scenario (from a published source)
Radiant
25.7°F mean radiant temperature
Method
Six-directional radiation integration, then ASHRAE operative temperature (from a published source)

Direct sun

Worked out: Computed from the geometry, the sun and the weather you gave it.after dark

0 W/m²

Beam reaching this point

The bar is the 0–100 reporting scale, mapped from the reading above: 0 is none of it, 100 the top of the scale.

The sun is down.

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

Glare

Worked out: Computed from the geometry, the sun and the weather you gave it.none

0

On the 0–100 reporting scale: 0 is none of it, 100 the top of the scale. Not a measurement.

The bar is the 0–100 reporting scale, mapped from the reading above; the tick is where this use stops working.

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

How this was worked out
Facing
180deg

Privacy exposure

Unanswered: Something this depends on has not been given, so nothing is being guessed.

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

Estimate: Worked out, but at least one input was assumed rather than measured.light

2 mph

Wind at the seat

The bar is the 0–100 reporting scale, mapped from the reading above: 0 is none of it, 100 the top of the scale.

Wind here is light.

How this was worked out
Reference
5.5 mph at 10 m from Hot and humid, long cooling season (scenario shape), scenario (from a published source)
At seat height
1.9 mph before shelter
Shelter
0% removed by what stands upwind

View

Unanswered: Something this depends on has not been given, so nothing is being guessed.

No view worth keeping has been marked, so there is nothing to weigh a screen against yet.

Surface heat

Estimate: Worked out, but at least one input was assumed rather than measured.comfortable

62°F

Surface temperature

The bar is the 0–100 reporting scale, mapped from the reading above: 0 is none of it, 100 the top of the scale.

The surface is running about 62°F.

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

Wetness

Estimate: Worked out, but at least one input was assumed rather than measured.dries-fast

1 × the open

Drying time against the open

The bar is the 0–100 reporting scale, mapped from the reading above; the tick is where this use stops working.

Overhead cover keeps most of the rain off in the first place.

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

Estimate: Worked out, but at least one input was assumed rather than measured.contained

0 lux

Light on the seat

The bar is the 0–100 reporting scale, mapped from the reading above: 0 is none of it, 100 the top of the scale.

Light is on, and nobody has been marked who could see it.

How this was worked out
Fixtures
1 placed
On the seat
0.0 lux
Spill
0% of output leaves sideways or upward

Ask something else about this place

Everything on the plan, in text
ThingReadingStandingNote
The house19 ft 8 inYou said so: You told us this, and it beats what the model worked out.100 per cent solid.
Carport roof9 ft 2 inMeasured: Taken with a tape, a compass or a clock at the place.100 per cent solid.
Corner post8 ft 2 inYou said so: You told us this, and it beats what the model worked out.100 per cent solid.
Corner post8 ft 2 inYou said so: You told us this, and it beats what the model worked out.100 per cent solid.