Marc@Studio

So today we learned a bit about Rhino, I'm excited to use it in the future, specially with its unwrap and lay flat or whatever command. I'm kind of a software junky, I like to use a lot of different stuff to make things work, so today I must admit i was not paying completely full attention because I was doing some research on rhino and some other cool programs. There's Vue, which does an amazing job on landscapes... It'll grow trees on surfaces with almost no effort, and no two trees are alike, as they're grown from an algorithm rather than just the same tree over and over again. Then there's some stuff I found in relation to the Rhino website, like Maxwell, which looks to be a lighting engine plugin for Rhino maybe? It looks sweet regardless. Then I found Mudbox, which sounds terrible, and looks to be useless for us, as it is mainly a character creation program, but maybe it could be good for something, and works by brushing geometry onto cubes, spheres, etc rather than solid modeling...Also, in terms of charchters, peeps, there's Poser, which interfaces with Vue really well, and is pretty simple to use.

the image on the right is rendered in Vue from the image on the left, from sketchup. It took a long time to render because it's fairly high resolution, but took about a half an hour to actually create. Its important to remember that we can make things real pretty and still they won't work without understanding the physical properties involved, but they are real pretty....