Lecture 10 - Rendering

Lecture today covered the radiosity and light studio and mental ray renders.

I ran through some example tutorials on The VizDepot on radiosity and mental ray.

I noted the length of time renders can take and the need to test setting before embarking on a full render.

I pointed out that a radiosity solution is calculated before a render is done. In the example file a radiosity solution took 43 minutes and the render on top of it took anoth 23 seconds!

The process of 'baking' textures was introduced. With baked textures the lighting solution can be exported to an interative power point 3D model...

Also mentioned was the use of Light Studio materials - for the first time in 15 years, relatively easy - notes on the rendering tutorial on architecture-onlineteaching

BBSc 303 - Web Page Tutorial

BBSc 303 - Web Page Tutorial: "This tutorial will show you the basics of how to
set up a web site. Not just one or two web pages, but the philosophy
and thinking behind the organisation and presentation of information
on the web."

This was also the topic of half of the Lecture on May 16, 2006. Follow through / work through the site creation / publish options

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• dreamweaver
• css
• html

Photoshop Luminance Equalization Tutorial

Photoshop Luminance Equalization Tutorial

Photoshop Luminance Equalization Tutorial for tiling maps

These two links to content from Jeremy Birn's web site related to his excellent book Digital Lighting and rendering

The second is really important for setting up and rendering your own materials and ensuring that when the material is tiled across a facade that the map assigned as a material does not show seam or join lines...

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• architecture
• render
• simulation

yaledailynews.com - Learning to love archi-torture

yaledailynews.com - Learning to love archi-torture

How architecture school work looks to people doing other undergrad degrees!

Movie: Sketches of Frank Gehry at news views and analysis

Coming to a cinema near you (released in USA May 12 2006):

Movie: Sketches of Frank Gehry at news views and analysis

"Frank Gehry one of the greatest architects known to man, and arguably a giant of his field today, is going to star in a documentary by his name.

The documentary releases in NYC on May 12. Check out the trailer on their website."

pdf Press Kit about Sydney Pollack's film offers an intriguing hope for a potential blockbuster at this years NZ Annual Film Festival along the lines of Concert of Wills etc.

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• architecture
• buildings
• CADD
• CAD

Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News - America's Top 10 Green Schools

Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News - America's Top 10 Green Schools: "The early-American school kids swaddled with scarves to within a breath of suffocating as they hiked to the little red school house didn't know that their classrooms suffered from faulty insulation and bad air. But that's because no one thought much about the coal fire's smoke, the oil lantern's lung-clogging potential, the dank air's capacity to promote mildew and molds, or the contaminated water from the well."

Green schools - finally!

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• architecture
• construction
• building_science
• daylight
• schools
• sustainability

Avant-garde architecture in Spain - WMMN Blog

yet ab=nother blog entry about the MOMA NY exhibition 2006 on Spanish Architecture
we make money not art: Avant-garde architecture in Spain (1)

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ecmanaut: Blogger publish ping and categorizer tool

ecmanaut: Blogger publish ping and categorizer tool

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DOE: High Performance Buildings - Design Approach

DOE: High Performance Buildings - Design Approach: "A high-performance commercial building is a building with energy, economic, and environmental performance that is substantially better than standard practice. It's energy efficient, so it saves money and natural resources. It's a healthy place to live and work for its occupants and has relatively low impact on the environment. All this is achieved through a process called whole-building design."

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• architecture
• building_science
• daylight
• sustainability

Renzo Piano Building Workshop Official Site - The New York Times Building, New York City (NY), USA

Renzo Piano Building Workshop Official Site - The New York Times Building, New York City (NY), USA

One of the hundreds of references to this innovative 'sustainable' building.

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• construction
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Green and Gleaming Towers | BusinessWeek

Green and Gleaming Towers | BusinessWeek

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• construction
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What's a Katrina Cottage? By Witold Rybczynski

What's a Katrina Cottage? By Witold Rybczynski

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"How architects build brands". 'The golden Age of the Skyscraper" Articles byWitold Rybczynski

How architects build brands. By Witold Rybczynski: "How architects market themselves."



Check out also Slate's Slide Show related to Witold's article 'The golden Age of the Skyscraper"

Make for interesting reading.

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• building_science
• buildings
• daylight
• environment
• sustainability

optics.org

optics.org: "Light transmitting concrete is set to go on sale later this year."

Found this today. Date is 11 March 2004, and I don't see evidence for the widespread sale of this stuff yet - but who knows? I wonder what the optical properties are and how one might therefore model them?

BBSC 303 Digital Craft Lecture 7 - 2 May 2006

We watched an 18 minute 1995 video James Burke
. He described the problems of communication between Architecture and Building Science computer programs. He also described the beginning of what has become a programme of 10 years in length developing the Building Information Model (BIM). The pros and cons of the idea and what exactly the concept might lead to were the major themes of this presentation.

David Harrison then presented his paper that he presented in early April to the CAADRIA conference in Kumamoto in Japan. He described his research project and thus the background to Reasonate. He also showed how to use a number of the enhanced features of Reasonate, including a first introduction to how to use the new 'Web Page' feature to make and publish the web pages that will be a core part of the hand in of Assignment 1 and Assignment 2.

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• IAI
• IFC
• Interoperability

Planet PDF - Review: Adobe Acrobat 3D

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 ...

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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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• digital_craft
• CAD
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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.

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• daylight
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• standards

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?

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...