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You can't really lump Rhino in with 3ds. It is a drafting program. Anyone using autocad can pick it up pretty quickly. Plus it isn't expensive. As far as learning 3ds, if you are a student Autodesk has learning editions of all their software availa…
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RFox and John Newman are now friends
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Those shows were really popular here in Australia for awhile but it seems like most of them got phased out for hot new cooking shows. Costa is the best in my opinion.
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RFox and Elaine Zhang are now friends
July 17
Unfortunately I have not projects in BIM. Currently in my working life parametrics/BIM remain an outside interest that I do when I can. That said, I do have an upcoming outside project coming up that I am going to try to use Revit or DP for. Though…
June 22
Ah well I guess that is still well less than Catia costs. DP was definitely never easy to learn and even harder to teach but once into it the power of the program was kind of captivating. It was worth learning because it gave me a good basis in par…
June 20
Agreed on revit and archicad. And on that front Digital Projects, though the expense can be high. After many, many hours invested in DP I despair to find a firm using it. Maybe at some point in the future. Pretty much all my modeling is done in Rhi…
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Photoshop Tutorial - Vanishing Point Filter

So I came across a feature in Photoshop that I had never seen before. It is called Vanishing Point. I was new to me and I thought it might be useful to
others so I made a quick tutorial.

Vanishing Point is basically what you would expect; it allows you to move things in perspective. This can, obviously, be quite useful.

To demonstrate I am using this picture of an old greenhouse at my in-laws.
The windows have been damaged by many hurricanes over the years but it refuses to give up. Let’s see… Continue

Posted on May 5, 2009 at 6:42pm — 4 Comments

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Rendering Tutorial - Displacement Maps

Displacement maps are the third and most powerful of the common maps.

Displacement maps can use the same black and white image that was developed for the bump map but instead of shifting the image while it stays flat, the Displacement map actually generates geometry by using the map as a heightfield where white is the most displacement and black is the least.

So, instead of appearing to have depth, displacment maps actually give the texture depth.

But because they are creating geometry displa… Continue

Posted on February 26, 2009 at 6:17pm —

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Rendering Tutorial - Bump Maps

Bump maps are the next step in giving a texture some life.

Bump maps adjust the image but don’t actually change geometry, giving the texture the appearance of having depth.

Like transparency maps, bump maps are black and white conversions of the original texture image but probably aren’t as extreme in their conversion, and keep a lot more greys than transparency’s usually do.

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Posted on February 26, 2009 at 5:12pm —

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Rendering Tutorial - Transparency Maps

One of the best ways to get the most out of 3D renderings is the use of maps on your textures.

A lot of times you will see renderings where the textures are and have no depth; they are basically a flat picture pasted on a wall. This is especially bad when the image is repeating and you get a pattern that runs the whole length of the object.

Pretty much every render engine lets users apply maps but I am using Vray for Rhino because of its ease of use and because Rhino great piece of software.… Continue

Posted on February 26, 2009 at 4:53pm — 5 Comments

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At 6:19am on October 1, 2009, Kelly Homan said…
thanks for the info! very helpful.
At 10:35am on September 16, 2009, Kelly Homan said…
Hello RFox, not sure if this is the place to ask you a question, but you seem to be one of very few people on here who mentions Rhino , I am thinking of learning Rhino. Would Rhino be a 3d program you would recommend? ( I know SU, CAD, Photoshop, pretty well already )

Is Rhino a BIM software? Thanks for any info.
At 8:03am on June 27, 2009, Nick Aceto said…
Oh geez...You're on archinect? I guess I'm not incognito there anymore.
At 11:50pm on March 22, 2009, Michael Van Beek said…
thought this was a good explanation of BIM,

The acronym means Building Information Modeling—essentially, making a full digital model of the building in the computer, a data clone. BIM software has reached adolescence, providing us with a solid foundation for computer-based design while having enormous potential for future development. SOM has jumped into the forefront of exploring BIM's use and potential.

Why? For a start, BIM keeps track of the myriad complexities of buildings, leading to better conformed drawing sets. BIM can help check and coordinate, so that ducts don't run through beams or rooms don't violate code sizes. Those are among the technical benefits.

Even better, BIM supports expressive design, handling complex mathematical geometries (or “parametric design,” which can magically change and update itself based on algorithms). BIM is well-suited for complicated infrastructure and institutional buildings that generally have complex programs and spaces and are saddled with many conditions, such as healthcare projects. In BIM, there are no lines—only smart objects, doors, walls, equipment, and so on. Every team member works from one central digital model that is continually updated with each designer's work. Instant teamwork and coordination gives more flexibility to designers, allowing them to concentrate on their own architectural ideas.

Currently, BIM comes in two main flavors, and SOM uses both: “Digital Project” (DP) is an evolution of the engine CATIA, and particularly adapted for curving elements and mathematical nuanced geometries. The other “flavor,” REVIT, has been used by SOM on four-to-six projects so far and for several of our signature towers, such as the Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center in New York.

SOM/NY is currently designing two healthcare projects using REVIT: a combination clinical laboratory/ambulatory care facility in Manhattan, and the other, a flagship Women's Hospital building for Long Island Jewish (LIJ), the largest healthcare provider on Long Island. For this 10-story building (with five-floor addition), the team began using BIM in schematic design, finding it perfect to keep track of all the programmatic areas, especially such repetitive and cellular areas as patient rooms. In other words, design one in BIM, and you've designed them all; change one, and you can change them all. The idea is refreshingly intuitive, but difficult to do until recently.

Obviously, a vast component of any hospital project is the equipment inside it—whether giant donut CT machines, other imaging devices, or boom systems for operating rooms. All of these products—industrially designed objects in their own right—are becoming available in BIM and thus a part of the model of the building. For LIJ, for example, all equipment will be in a 3-D database.

And the future? Well, BIM is best (so far) for the certainty of later design stages and, naturally, for construction drawings. However, we are still looking into how to use BIM, or other add-on programs, to capture early, tentative, and yet pivotal design stages, as well as for quick studies and concepts, stacking, and diagrams. Another potential area for growth: landscape design.

Not everyone is ready for the new “BIM Lifestyle.” Certainly there are teething issues to be sorted out. We were amused to discover, for instance, that there are no 3-D revolving door files yet; though revolving doors are complicated, they are a staple of healthcare (and airport) design, and perfect candidates for future development in this area. As technology progresses, eventually CAD drafting will resemble a 19th-century crutch. It is doubtful, when BIM is fully mature, that we will ever look back to our pre-BIM childhood with anything other than historical interest. Some sort of BIM will be the standard “model” of healthcare design for all of us.
At 11:35pm on November 24, 2008, Nick Aceto said…
Thanks brother..
At 6:31am on July 7, 2008, Patrick Michaels said…
Thanks for that, Induct.
 
 
 

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