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Rhino Car Tutorial Book

nnnaaarrr — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:56:40 +0000

A wonderful book “3D Car Modeling with Rhinoceros” by André Kutscherauer. It contains a complete step by step guide on how to model Audi R8 in Rhinoceros. If you are interested in 3d modeling, never pass up a good chance to improve your skill lever.

car animation

Book Review: Audi R8 in Nurbs

Free Sample [PDF]

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Considering Investment in A Gold

nnnaaarrr — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:10:57 +0000

With the global economic environment growing more and more uncertain, gold has become the #1 alternative for IRA. Many are “afraid of stocks,” particularly in this go-go market. Your broker might recommend a greater diversification of your investments. You may deposit your money with the bank, Plus, for many, buy bullion is a better option than leave it there.

In such a low interest rate environment, it may still be good for investors to consider investing some money in bullion because they might be able to achieve a higher return than cash deposits.

Speculating in gold involves great risk but promises great rewards, as the price goes up and down so quickly. if the price of gold bullion has risen, you would make a profit. You can buy gold bullion on Goldcoinsgain.Com. It is an Aurum Advisors website that strives to provide their clients very useful information about America’s gold IRA, gold bullion investment, and gold price.

Given that gold in general will give you higher returns than savings in the long run, this is why many fund managers advise investors to put a significant portion of their wealth in gold and hold on to them.

You should study ways of channeling investment into the proper areas. So dont hesitate, request your free gold guide and buy bullion now.

3D Printed Bikini – N12

nnnaaarrr — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 09:28:19 +0000

[VIA] Shapeways.com

Developed in partnership with Continuum Fashion, the N12 is the first fully 3D printed Bikini, ready to wear and available for purchase from the Conitnuum’s Shapeways Shop.

To purchase the N12 bikini visit the Continuum Shop
Sizes range from 32 to 36,
Cup sizes A to D,
Petite, Regular and Tall

Each N12 bikini is 3D printed to order

Continuum Fashion:
Website: www.continuumfashion.com
Blog: www.continuuminum.com
Twitter: @continuuminum

Designed by Continuum Fashion, the N12 if the first completely 3D-printed, ready-to-wear, item of clothing. Previous experiments into the use of 3D printing in clothing have remained purely experimental, haute couture items not available to purchase. This represents the first affordable design that will lead the way for more items fabricated using 3D printing technologies.

“The bikini’s design fundamentally reflects the beautiful intricacy possible with 3D printing, as well as the technical challenges of creating a flexible surface out of the solid nylon. Thousands of circular plates are connected by thin springs, creating a wholly new material that holds its form as well as being flexible. The layout of the circle pattern was achieved through custom written code that lays out the circles according to the curvature of the surface. In this way, the aesthetic design is completely derived from the structural design.” Mary Haung, Continuum Fashion

The N12 is named after Nylon 12 (WSF), the material in which the bikini is 3D printed. Nylon 12 makes an ideal swimsuit material as it is innately waterproof. As well as being the first 3D printed bikini, it is also the first bikini that actually becomes more comfortable when it gets wet.

The N12 was designed using Rhino 3D CAD software and specially written algorithmic script to create the structure of the 3D printed fabric. The algorithm uses a complex ‘circle packing’ equation on an arbitrarily doubly curved surface (the bikini). The size of the circles responds to curvature and edge conditions of the form, creating smooth edges and a responsive pattern.

photography: Ariel Efron
model: Bojana Draskovic

Digital Fabrics and Patterning

The patterning starts with a curved surface, some geometry to indicate edges and value ranges for the circles sizes and tolerance parameters. The pattern begins placing circles at a point near the edge. Each subsequent circle tries to stay as near to the nearest edge geometry at possible. The circle’s size is determined using this nearness and the local curvature of the surface. Curvier areas get small circles and flatter areas larger, both to help with accurately approximating the surface and to ensure flexibility where it is needed and efficiency of pattern where it is not.

Every time a bend or elbow is encountered in the surface edge, a small gap will be left in the pattern. Gaps will also occur near the middle distances between edges where the placement of the next circle is less certain. After the first level of pattern has been created, these open areas are infilled with smaller circles to ensure complete coverage, and to create a more interesting aesthetic pattern.

One of the goals of the circle patterning system is to be able to adapt it to any surface, at any size. This means that future articles of clothing can be produced using the same algorithm, this could be taken a step further into absolute customization by using a body scan to make a bespoke article of clothing, 3D printed to exactly fit that person only.

About Continuum Fashion

Continuum Fashion is comprised of Mary Haung and Jenna Fizel (left to right).

Jenna designs and programs interactive environments at Small Design Firm in Cambridge, MA. She has previously worked at KPF in computational geometry and has her BSAD in Architecture from MIT. Jenna is interested in reinterpreting traditional crafts and manufacturing using computational tools.

Mary has a BA in Design and Media Arts from UCLA, and a MA from the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID). Most recently, she worked in interaction design at Local Projects in NYC. Her other notable work includes Rhyme & Reason–a collection of LED dresses, and TYPEFACE–a software piece combining facial recognition and typography.

[VIA] Shapeways.com

T-Splines 2011 Design Contest

nnnaaarrr — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:43:12 +0000

Contest Details

The T-Splines 2011 design contest, “Make the world a better place” is now launched! Register now to compete for over 100 prizes, including CAD software, iPads, and 3D prints.

Special free trial software bundles are available for your use during the contest when you register.

There are five categories: architecture, transit, jewelry, consumer products, and miscelleneous.

The architecture category comes with a special offer: Z Corp will ship 3D prints of your model to you during the contest so you can see your design evolve in real life!

Details.

Food4rhino-plugin community service by mcneel

nnnaaarrr — Sun, 08 May 2011 01:03:14 +0000

[VIA] Rhino News, etc

food4Rhino (WIP) is the new Plug-in Community Service by McNeel.

As a user, find the newest Rhino Plug-ins, Grasshopper Add-ons, Textures and Backgrounds, add your comments, discuss about new tools, get in contact with the developers of these applications, share your scripts…

As a developer, take advantage of the site’s infrastructure and exposure, build your user community, get valuable feedback, easily manage your updates and new builds.

food4Rhino is still in WIP (work in progress), many new features are planned, and we want to hear your ideas and suggestions.

Join the community now!

An Introduction to Grasshopper for Rhino

nnnaaarrr — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:33:50 +0000

Live! Wednesday, April 27, 2011 — 11:00am PDT

Grasshopper is a visual programming platform that offers the possibility to explore parametric and associative designs with unprecedented fluidity. In this introductory webinar, Grasshopper guru Andy Payne will take a look at the Grasshopper interface and walk through a series of examples that take advantage of various generative and associative modeling techniques.

Andy Payne is a licensed architect and founder of LIFT architects who is currently pursuing his doctoral degree at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Andrew’s work explores embedded computation and parametric design and is a co-author (with Rajaa Issa) of The Grasshopper Primer which provides an in depth look at the Grasshopper plug-in for Rhino.

Registrate Now

[VIA: Novedge Webinar Series]

new webniars

nnnaaarrr — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:22:17 +0000

Introduction to Rhino

Learn the basics of using the Rhino application in this Introduction to Rhino webinar with Mary Fugier, Rhino instructor at Robert McNeel & Associates. This online seminar will introduce you to Rhino and we’ll cover how to create the models in the Rhino “Getting Started”.

Dates/Times:

Thursday, October 21, 2:00pm-4:30pm (Pacific) – Register

T-Splines 2.3 for Rhino Released

nnnaaarrr — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:15:07 +0000

[via: T-Splines Blog]

T-Splines 2.3 for Rhino Released Featuring Integration with Grasshopper and Orca3D

Integration with popular programs Grasshopper and Orca3D, as well as translation into Italian, French, and Spanish, further expands T-Splines’ usefulness for creating high-quality freeform designs.

Provo, UT May 3, 2010 — T-Splines, Inc., creators of precise and flexible 3D surface modeling tools with full industry standard compatibility, today announced the production release of T-Splines v2.3 for Rhino. T-Splines gives designers the ability to create high quality freeform models, edit them quickly, and export them for manufacturing directly without any remodeling.

T-Splines 2.3 features integration with two other products based on the Rhino platform, Grasshopper and Orca3D, localization in Italian, French, and Spanish, speed enhancements, and new precision modeling tools. A 25-saves free trial of T-Splines can be downloaded at http://www.tsplines.com/freetrial.

Users of Grasshopper, a popular generative modeling program based on Rhino, can now use freeform T-Spline shapes as the basis of Grasshopper-generated models. A T-Splines component for Grasshopper is also available for push-button conversion of meshes to NURBS.

“Using T-Splines with Grasshopper is the best way I have found to model complex and organic forms using parametric data,” said Rodrigo Medina of designplaygrounds.com. Examples of how to use T-Splines and Grasshopper can be found at http://www.tsplines.com/grasshopper.html.

The integration of T-Splines with Orca3D, a marine plugin based on Rhino, means that naval architects can cut sections through T-Splines hulls and these sections will update dynamically as control points are edited. T-Splines objects can also be used for Orca3D hydrostatics analysis and can have Orca3D weight/cost properties assigned to them. Learn more about how to use T-Splines and Orca3D together at http://www.tsplines.com/applications/marine.html.

The T-Splines plugin is now translated into Italian, French, and Spanish to further enable T-Splines users in these languages to take advantage of the ability of T-Splines to easily create smooth, freeform geometry that can be passed downstream to any CAD program.

T-Splines v2.3 also features a number of speedups, bug fixes, new tools for modeling with precision, and a 25-saves trial.

“T-Splines is of greatest value to the busiest designers, because it allows them to iterate more quickly between designs and converge on the desired shape,” said Matt Sederberg, CEO of T-Splines. “Since we recognize how little time designers have to try new software, we have now made available a free trial of T-Splines that has no time limit–the software is fully functional for 25-saves.”

T-Splines v2.3 is a free service release for existing users of T-Splines v2 for Rhino. New users can purchase the product for $599 or download a 25-saves free trial at http://www.tsplines.com/store.html.

About T-Splines
T-Splines, Inc. develops surface modeling software with optimal control and full industry standard compatibility for industrial designers and CAD professionals. Founded in 2004 and based in Provo, Utah, the company develops and markets end-user plug-ins and software development libraries based on its next-generation, NURBS-compatible technology.

Voronoi Galleries

nnnaaarrr — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:40:55 +0000

A gallery curated by Drew & Mithi

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The ASGVIS: ICE Render-Off Contest

nnnaaarrr — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:13:17 +0000

ASGVIS invites all V-Ray for Rhino and V-Ray for SketchUp users to participate in the ASGVIS: ICE Render-Off Contest!