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solidThinking Inspired for Architects
solidThinking Inspired and its unique morphogenesis form-generation technology can provide great inspiration to architects just like it does for product designers.
The pictures below illustrate how starting from a very simple design space (represented in orange) and defining the environmental conditions (loads and forces), can yield inspiring inputs for new designs, in this case for a bridge.
A preview of the upcoming new solidThinking Inspired release was offered to a large architectural audience during the recent Acadia 2010 conference in New York, October 21 to 24. The software was positively received, having been described as “provocative” and “user friendly” by attendees.
solidThinking at the ACADIA 2010 Conference, Oct 21-24, New York
solidThinking will be exhibiting at the Acadia 2010 conference in New York, October 21st to 24th.
Acadia 2010 will explore the ways designers, architects, engineers and scientists collect, analyze and assemble information through computational systems that redefine the notions of design performance and optimization, evolutionary and responsive models.
We will offer previews of the new solidThinking release that will be available this fall, including the latest advancements of the morphogenesis form-generation technology.
Location:
The Cooper Union,
25 Cooper Square,
New York, NY 10003
New York, NY 10003
When:
October 21-24, 2010
Tip: Lighting an interior with just one light
Lighting an interior that only receives natural light through doors or windows can be a difficult task. In fact, for the most part, the lighting of the interior comes from the light bouncing off the walls, floor and ceiling. In order to achieve a good result, this ‘bouncing’ must be handled properly. Here is a tip on how to obtain good lighting with just one light source in a scene like the one represented in the image below.
This scene does not contain any light. In order to simulate the natural light, follow the below steps:
- add a light to the scene using the Light tool that you find in the modelling toolbar;
- place the light anywhere in the scene;
- open the Shading panel, right-click on “Light [none]” in the shader tree and choose “simple sky”.
Now we need to adjust intensity and shadows. Set them as in the picture below.
At this point, if we render we can have an idea of where the direct lighting hits the floor (see image below). The scene is dark because we have not yet activated the ‘bouncing’ of the light.
In solidThinking, there are different ways to activate and control the light’s bouncing. In this case we will use a method that provides extremely fast, high-quality and natural-looking results.
We use the Final Gather algorithms that we can activate in the Rendering section of the Shading panel. Once it is enabled, we just need to control and adjust some parameters, as shown in the images below.
Once we have set these parameters, we can render and see the final result (see image below).
CAAD futures 2009: FREE solidThinking Workshop “Computational Inspiration and Exploration”, June 15th, Montreal, Canada
Arcitects and product designers are in constant search of inspiration.
Architectand product designers are in constant search of inspiration.
Nature has always been a source of inspiration, and particularly biological forms. While biological forms tend to be aestheticallyinteresting, they also tend to be efficient and highly functional because they are the product of environmental pressures.
Today, new technologies enable architects and product designers to simulate some of the processes and physical laws in nature with software algorithms, thus helping to generate forms in response to environmental stimuli.
What challenges and opportunities arise from defining environmental conditions and interpreting the forms that are generated? How do methods such as these complement traditional methods?
The FREE half day workshop will describe, with practical and visual examples, exciting new methods that have now emerged for architects and designers to generate and explore forms that are aesthetically interesting, often unexpected, and at the same time well adapted to their intended function.
Each participant should bring their own laptop.
Attendees at this workshop will be granted a 3-month license to solidThinking and the new morphogenesis™ form generation technology which will be unveiled for the first time during CAADFutures 2009. and product designers are in constant search of inspiration.
Nature has always been a great source of inspiration, and particularly biological forms. While biological forms tend to be aesthetically interesting, they also tend to be efficient and highly functional because they are the product of environmental pressures.
Today, new technologies enable architects and product designers to simulate some of the processes and physical laws in nature with software algorithms, thus helping to generate forms in response to environmental stimuli.
What challenges and opportunities arise from defining environmental conditions and interpreting the forms that are generated? How do methods such as these complement traditional methods?
The FREE half day workshop will describe, with practical and visual examples, exciting new methods that have now emerged for architects and designers to generate and explore forms that are aesthetically interesting, often unexpected, and at the same time well adapted to their intended function.
Each participant should bring their own laptop.
Attendees at this workshop will be granted a 3-month license to solidThinking and the new morphogenesis™ form generation technology which will be unveiled for the first time during CAADFutures 2009.
Click here for registration details.
Workshop in San Francisco / Registration Open
The California College of the Arts, School of Architecture in San Francisco organizes FLUX 2009, a series of workshops and lectures investigating Architecture and Design’s evolving relationship with parametric design and digital fabrication.
The workshops are open to students and professionals in the design disciplines. The schedule includes Beyond Parametric Modeling with solidThinking, a 2 days workshop that will explore solidThinking and the freedom it provides to create design concepts for architectural design and product development.
Registration is limited so sign up now!
