SectionTools Plugin for rhinoceros
[via: rhino newsletter]
The latest version of Sectiontools Plugin for Rhino 5.o wip is realeased with some improvements.
What’s new:
- Added new command “stEditSections” to edit sectioning options such as solid mode, direction and attributes. stEditSectionHatch and stSectionDir are now part of the new command.
- Combined “stView”, “stSetCPlaneToSection” and “stSetViewToSection” into one new command “stViewSections”. You can now “Clip”, “SetView” and “SetCPlane” all in one step.
- Added support for persistent options to stCreate, stCreateArray and stViewSections commands.
- Fixed a bug when flipping section direction.
- 2D Layout now outputs curves, solids and hatched to 3 different sub-layers. This will help assign different layer attributes to each one.
- Made it more reliable to view section curves, surfaces and hatches.
- Fixed CPlane alignment bug.
- Added a new item to “SolidMode” option in stCreate and stCreateArray commands. It allows adding both hatches and surfaces at the same time.
- Added enhancements to stMoveSections command. Dragging sections’ now gives real-time feedback of intersections and section clipping plane location.
- When creating sections, selecting objects is now a separate step from options. This way it will be possible to preselect objects and change options.
- Fixed duplicate polycurves in 2D layouts bug.
- Enhanced reporting output
- Fixed a crash bug when saving as V4 then open in V5.
- Many other minor bug fixes.
- Added nine new short clips and updated toolbars and help manual.
Fake or Foto
Fake or Foto? Do you have a good eye?
The Challenge…
Do you remember this popular contest from last year? Now FakeOrFoto has new pictures up.
Today we’re presented with images in movies, on TV, and in the press that are of such good quality we don’t even think to consider whether the picture is of something that exists in reality or if it was generated by computer software. Movies can be considered as being at the high-end of the range of uses for computer generated imagery that mimics real-life, but there are many more day-to-day examples that challenge our ability to tell what’s real and what’s not.
Come along now, you may know that answer. I got 9 of 12 on the first try. How about you? I’ll expect the answer.
RhinoAir 3.0 released
Try this version of RhinoAir, you can easily render pic like this, and you’ll soon get to love it. 
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The RhinoAir plugin enables Rhino users to quickly start rendering using familiar Rhino materials and lights while providing easy access to Air’s advanced features.
RhinoAir brings full scene interactive shading and lighting to Rhino with the aid of TweakAir. View lighting and material changes as you make them in a high-quality interactive preview.
With BakeAir, RhinoAir allows shading in a scene to be rendered or “baked” to texture maps. Baked maps can used as textures for realtime rendering in Rhino or with an exported VRML file.
64-bit version for Rhino 5
Stereo rendering
Caustics
Custom area light shapes
Export outlines as vectors (in SVG format)
Faster scene export
10 Basic Rules Of Image Composition
As we all know, a way to pick the right type of image composition would make a big difference. It is very critical and demanding that how we process image composition falseness and truth, reality and fantasy, concealment and revelation, closeness and distance these opposite and untied relation in exact means.
Maxim Ganzha takes us back to basics with a look at the 10 main rules of image composition.
Introduction :
There are 10 main composition rules to bear in mind when it comes to creating an image. Following these rules can help to make your image more successful and visually appealing.
Please note that the works shown in this article are not mine, but have all been used with permission of the artists that created them.
1. Contrast :
How you can attract the viewer to your picture? You need to have contrast in your scene. The light object should be on dark background and vice versa.
2. Layout :
The key objects should not be placed chaotically. It is better that they form the shape of a simple geometric figure.
3. Balance :
The objects located in opposite sides of frame should correspond to each other in terms of volume, size and color parameters.
what’s new in rhino5 wip
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