Planet PDF - Review: Adobe Acrobat 3D: "With Acrobat 3D, its newest addition to the Acrobat family, Adobe pushed the envelope of PDF capabilities. Adobe Acrobat 3D expands next-generation PDF workflow into the 3D worlds of Manufacturing and AEC (architecture, engineering and construction)."
Now this looks like a logical and exciting extensions to the Right Hemisphere 3D pdf expoert options we already have ...
CAD models of buildings built and unbuilt. Reality and unreality. Visualisation, auralisation and other VR experience of the built environment.
Saturday, April 29, 2006
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Google SketchUp (free) SUD
Google SketchUp (free) SUD: "The person who says it can't be done shouldn't interrupt the person who is doing it."
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Sunday, April 23, 2006
Daylighting for the 21st Century
Daylighting for the 21st Century
Two years ago, but not yet out-of-date. An article in 'Architectural Lighting' on the issues in daylighting. James points out that unlike Victoria, there are many schools in the USA who "... have faculty with genuine daylighting expertise; and even fewer have artificial skies, helidons, and other systems for scale modeling and measuring daylighting performance. There is a tenuous acceptance of computer analysis and an unfortunate scale-modeling-versus-computer-modeling controversy brewing." The work that is being done by the IEA is a step towards improving this situation.
Two years ago, but not yet out-of-date. An article in 'Architectural Lighting' on the issues in daylighting. James points out that unlike Victoria, there are many schools in the USA who "... have faculty with genuine daylighting expertise; and even fewer have artificial skies, helidons, and other systems for scale modeling and measuring daylighting performance. There is a tenuous acceptance of computer analysis and an unfortunate scale-modeling-versus-computer-modeling controversy brewing." The work that is being done by the IEA is a step towards improving this situation.
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3D Collaboration Spaces: What Future Ahead? - Online Collaboration and Web Conferencing Breaking News - Kolabora.com
3D Collaboration Spaces: What Future Ahead? - Online Collaboration and Web Conferencing Breaking News - Kolabora.com
"3D immersive virtual reality spaces in which people can meet, talk, present, and exchange documents and files have been around for over two years now." - Now, what about applications where architects, interior designers and buuilding scientists collaborate on modelling reality which is creative and challenging, not merely a decoration of the net environment?
"3D immersive virtual reality spaces in which people can meet, talk, present, and exchange documents and files have been around for over two years now." - Now, what about applications where architects, interior designers and buuilding scientists collaborate on modelling reality which is creative and challenging, not merely a decoration of the net environment?
Maturing Visualization Tools Make Ideas Look Real - Construction Industry, News Articles, Business Conditions
Maturing Visualization Tools Make Ideas Look Real - Construction Industry, News Articles, Business Conditions
Learn a little bit about what 4D might mean to people involved in construction...
Learn a little bit about what 4D might mean to people involved in construction...
CADwire.net - Articles > Avoiding Mistakes, Saving Money: The Case for Virtual Design and Construction
CADwire.net - Articles > Avoiding Mistakes, Saving Money: The Case for Virtual Design and Construction
A corporate AIA view of the things that can be done with true 3D models - 'virtual' or ebuildings.
A corporate AIA view of the things that can be done with true 3D models - 'virtual' or ebuildings.
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Ellen’s Knowledge blog » Blog Archive » The Fish Story, or reduction of the nonessential
Ellen’s Knowledge blog » Blog Archive » The Fish Story, or reduction of the nonessential
Ellen Finkelstein has some really interesting things to say about effective communication. Here is a link of great use in the upcoming weeks as we get onto designing our own web pages - writing web pages that communicate well
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Modern building rises in heart of ancient Rome - Yahoo! News
Modern building rises in heart of ancient Rome - Yahoo! News
"ROME (Reuters) - After years of controversy, Rome on Friday unveiled the first modern building to rise in its ancient centre since dictator Benito Mussolini ruled Italy more than half a century ago.
Renowned U.S. architect Richard Meier was on hand for the inauguration of the Ara Pacis museum, a steel, glass and marble structure that has fired Roman passions with one critic comparing it to a giant petrol station."
An article of interest for two reasons - another building for the list of buildings for future Digital Craft classes - and a description of the new buildings under construction or planned for Rome.
ArchitectureWeek - Tools - Digital Physical Mashup - 2006.0419
ArchitectureWeek - Tools - Digital Physical Mashup - 2006.0419
A digital design studio - not unlike the second year project we have been running at Victoria for the past 10 years or so -
A digital design studio - not unlike the second year project we have been running at Victoria for the past 10 years or so -
Aura :: 601 Capitol Mall, Sacramento, California, United States :: Glass Steel and Stone
Aura :: 601 Capitol Mall, Sacramento, California, United States :: Glass Steel and Stone
Check this out for a lesson in how a very simple block can be dressed up with a 3D 'skin' that alters our perception of the blockiness... A far cry for Daniel Libeskind from the V&A spiral or the Denver art meseum addition...
Check this out for a lesson in how a very simple block can be dressed up with a 3D 'skin' that alters our perception of the blockiness... A far cry for Daniel Libeskind from the V&A spiral or the Denver art meseum addition...
New Orleans woman runs for mayor of Disneyland | The Register
New Orleans woman runs for mayor of Disneyland | The Register
Is this waht Baudrillard was writing about - the virtual becomes the reality in some sense? The article raises an interesting possibility that the 'restoration' of New Orleans will become a gentrification / ersatz 'safe' and 'cleaned up' version of what used to be there... And then is it any longer New Orleans?
Is this waht Baudrillard was writing about - the virtual becomes the reality in some sense? The article raises an interesting possibility that the 'restoration' of New Orleans will become a gentrification / ersatz 'safe' and 'cleaned up' version of what used to be there... And then is it any longer New Orleans?
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