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Omni light

February 22nd, 2011 No comments

How to illuminate a lamp using an omni light, and how use the “Vray2sidedMtl” to create a translucency effect on the lamp shade.

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10 Basic Rules Of Image Composition

December 6th, 2010 No comments

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.

contrast in your sense

2. Layout :

The key objects should not be placed chaotically. It is better that they form the shape of a simple geometric figure.

reasonable layout

3. Balance :

The objects located in opposite sides of frame should correspond to each other in terms of volume, size and color parameters.

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what’s new in rhino5 wip

December 5th, 2010 No comments
This webinar was taught by Brian James.

If you missed the chance to attend this discussion, you can download the recorded webinar for free.

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What’s New in Rhino 5 WIP, November 11, 2010 (148MB zipped)

How to use ies light in vray for rhino

November 29th, 2010 No comments

This tutorial will teach you how to use ies light in your sense. You need to install vray for rhino first to complete this tutorial.

1. Open your interior scene and then set Vray for rhino as the current rendering engine.

Tips: The scale of the objects is important, 1:1 is better.

2. In the Rhino command prompt, type visIESlight to create a light.

3. In the Light Properties window, click on Browse button to add an existing ies file you want to use.

4. Modify other parameters to meet your needs. It seems that the intensity of the light cannot change in this version. Done.

Useful links:

Download IES Viewer

Download IES Generator

Sample IES File

Scan-and-Solve for Rhino

November 27th, 2010 No comments

This video demonstrates stress and deformation analysis by Scan&Solve of a free-form sculpture represented in Rhino by a polygonal mesh of its boundary that is imported from a stereo-lithography (STL) file format.

About Scan&Solve

This plugin for rhino performs stress analysis on solid models (through seamless integration within rhinoceros).

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