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PALMPaint: pixel-painting editor for PALM static drivers

Simulation 1 MB

PALMPaint is a pixel-painting tool to create and edit PALM static drivers with buildings, trees and streets. Useful for setting up urban LES geometries.

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Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23192510
Licence
GPL-3.0+ Copyleft open-source licence: use and change it freely, but share any distributed changes under the same licence.
Size
1 MB

How to cite

Lampe, P. (2026). PALMPaint [Computer software]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23192510

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Details

Resource
Software & tools, Geometry
Method
LES
Geometry
Realistic neighbourhood
Codes / models
PALM
Year
2026
Creators
Lampe, Pierre

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