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Illustrator Drawing Setup from ACAD Linework

Bradley Cantrell — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:38:31 +0000

Illustrator . Drawing Setup from ACAD Linework from Bradley Cantrell on Vimeo.

Tutorial on Adobe Illustrator layers and drawing organization for LA 1102 by Peter Summerlin

AutoCAD . Paperspace

Bradley Cantrell — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:34:57 +0000

AutoCAD . Paperspace from Bradley Cantrell on Vimeo.

Tutorial on AutoCAD paperspace for LA 1102 by Peter Summerlin

AutoCAD . Dimensions and Lineweight

Bradley Cantrell — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:33:34 +0000

AutoCAD . Dimensons and Lineweights from Bradley Cantrell on Vimeo.

Tutorial on AutoCAD dimensions and lineweights for LA 1102 by Peter Summerlin

Creating a Section Using Google Earth

Bradley Cantrell — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:47:53 +0000

This method allows you to quickly find a section cut line from the terrain models that are part of Google Earth. Keep in mind that the results shown have an exaggerated vertical elevation which may not work in some situations. The vertical exaggeration can be adjusted by re-sizing the window, although this cannot be accomplished precisely.

It is also possible to find out more information about the section by dragging the cursor over portions in the profile window, this will show distance, slope, elevation change, etc for the range that is selected.

Finding elevations for a section cut in google earth. The tutorial is by Lucas Frey at the LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture

AutoCAD . Scale and Rotate by Reference

Bradley Cantrell — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:06:49 +0000

AutoCAD . Rotate and Scale by Reference from Bradley Cantrell on Vimeo.

Rotating and scaling an image by reference. The tutorial is by Peter Graves at the LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture

LA 1102 . Mini-Assignment 01

Bradley Cantrell — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:47:57 +0000

LA 1102 Mini-Assignment 01 from Bradley Cantrell on Vimeo.

Creating a diagram in Adobe Illustrator based on an underlying image. The tutorial is by Lucas Frey at the LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture

Populate . Terrain

Bradley Cantrell — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:24:58 +0000

Populate has developed a great plugin that helps when generating terrain meshes in 3ds max. The plugin will take nearly any splines you throw at it and create a mesh grid. Take a look at the plugin, it is free.

Compressing with Handbrake and Uploading to Vimeo

Bradley Cantrell — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 02:28:38 +0000

After saving your animation sequence to an uncompressed AVI file from the RAM player in 3ds max you will use handbrake to compress the file.

Load the (1) AVI file as the source file, (2) choose a destination, (3) pick the normal profile and then click (4) start.

The resulting file will then be used to upload to the LA 2101 current work group. You will need to first create a profile on vimeo then join the group. It will then be possible to upload the file to vimeo.

Realtime Rendering Solutions

Bradley Cantrell — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 03:23:12 +0000

There is a lot of talk regarding GPU processing and realtime rendering solutions for design visualization. Vray RT is pushing the brute force methodology. Overall it shows a lot of promise but will require some breakthroughs in the near future to be a real contender. With the support behind CUDA though my guess would be that happens sooner rather than later.

VRay RT Technology Demo 1 from Scott Slauson on Vimeo.

A few other solutions that are of interest use Direct X in Windows to drive realtime worlds. The three top contenders seem to be the CryEngine, Lumion and Twinmotion. The interesting thing about these solutions is the environmental approach they are taking. The ability to interactively adjust sun, weather and other atmospheric attributes allows for some very interesting visualization potentials. The simulation of landscape or ecological processes with constructed models inches slowly forward.

The Cryengine 3 trailer is extremely impressive. The improvements in gaming engines is really amazing from the time 3 years ago when we taught realtime landscapes at LSU using the source engine.

RRSLA 2101 . ADR Seminar

Bradley Cantrell — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:55:57 +0000

We have just concluded another semester of the Advanced Digital Representation seminar at the RRSLA. This year we had approximately 28 students split between graduates and undergraduates. You can view the Syllabus and some of the earlier projects: 1 … 2 … 3 … 4. The final project involved the building of a large regional landscape based on a predefined set of landscape typologies. They then placed themselves within this landscape and developed an illustration that attempted to capture the experiential qualities of the landscape. The illustrations were driven by an aesthtic that was adopted from assigned films. The project brief is here and some of the final products are below.