Archive for the 'Visualisation' Category
Watch this beautiful visualisation of an acoustic analysis inside a torus knot done in Ecotect.
Dr. Andrew J. Marsh, the principal author behind Ecotect comments on a future Mac OS X compilation of the software in the Autodesk Ecotect discussion forum:
Basically I’d love to do a Mac version of ECOTECT… I’ll need to go entirely OpenGL in v6.0 of ECOTECT. This will break the link with GDI and make both [...]
Learn about Composition and Cameras, Modeling, Lighting, Rendering and Post and find out how Neoscape produced their well known Loft 5 project (Video from YouTube).
Tutorials
The following tutorials give insight into techniqes using AutoCAD, Revit, SketchUp 3ds Max and V-Ray.
See the tutorials at en.9jcg.com:
Exterior Scenes Part 1 - Composition & Cameras
Exterior Scenes Part 2 - Modeling [...]
Autodesk anounced the availability of Ecotect 5.60 for purchase online. It almost doubled in price compared to previous versions.
Read the news at the Autodesk/Square One website
The movie above illustrates a visualisation of N02 in London by CASA, University College London,in association with the Environmental Research Group at Kings College London.
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2): NO2 is produced in high temperature combustions processes and chemical reactions in the atmosphere. Road transport is responsible for 60 per cent of emissions of NOx (the pollutant [...]
The world has lost almost half of its forests already, and the continued rate of deforestation contributes greatly to climate change and the loss of global biodiversity. This easy to grasp visualisation in Google Earth from the Google Earth Outreach Showcase gives us the state of the forests today. 3D extrusions of the countries boundaries [...]
Squint/Opera is a film and media production studio operating within the film and architectural industry.
Using a unique visual language, the company channels and translates the creative investigations of the architectural team on social and environmental impacts into a medium that everyone, from the schoolchild to the Mayor, can understand.
For more information and to view more [...]
Next Limit Technologies (Madrid, Spain) announced it’s next iteration of Maxwell Render. The manual as well as several plugins for integration into CAD and 3D design applications were updated too.
The Physical Sky system in Maxwell Render 1.7 uses an entirely new approach and has been greatly enhanced adding more parameters to control the look of [...]
A few questions for our readers!
Are you an energy modeller working in the early design process of a building?
Do you have experiences with the IDP (Integrated Design Process)?
There are the following workflows/ options for energy modelling in the early design process:
1. Revit -> gbXML -> GBS (Green Buiding Studio) - Web Service
2. Square One - [...]
See anticipated global temperature rising and how it could affect our world until 2100. The animation uses world-leading climate science from the UK’s Met Office Hadley Centre to show world temperatures throughout the next hundred years under medium projections of greenhouse gas emissions.
Users can also access information on action that can be taken by individuals, [...]
