
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Casa Lim #2

Sunday, November 22, 2009
MentalRay Settings
Download scene file here.
1. F10 to get into render setup and select MentalrayDaylighting High. Just click 'OK' if it ask for anything.
2. Enable Final Gather > choose your preset... low, medium, high
3. If you got a workstation, go for global illumination. Great fr interiors. If not, doesn't matter. I didn't select this option due to the long ass rendering time. ( which I can fix in Photoshop)
4. Check the options for memory management.
5. Close 'Render Setup' window and press '8' for Environment Control. In the ExposireControl, choose Logarithmic Exposure Control'.
6. Place direct light on target object and use the settings below.
8. Go to Render Setup again (F10), Common Parameters tab > Area to Render > select 'Crop'.

9. Right click the 'Camera' or 'name of vewport', and enable 'Show Safe Frame' and 'Edit Render Region'
10. You're done, press 'F9'
Okay it sucks... i know... that's where photoshop comes in handy
11. In photoshop, select Image > Levels, increase the brightness contrast input levels (the small little white arrow.

TA DAH~!!!~
1. F10 to get into render setup and select MentalrayDaylighting High. Just click 'OK' if it ask for anything.







9. Right click the 'Camera' or 'name of vewport', and enable 'Show Safe Frame' and 'Edit Render Region'




TA DAH~!!!~
Go here, if you want some simple Vray settings.
by the way..
3s MAX 2010 default settings for mental has a quality similar to Vray.
Trip to... eerr.. where d ar?
Saturday, November 21, 2009
MArch Thesis_A Project On Zero Degree
FORM CONTROL: A Research Into Form Animation Through Urban Forces
This project enquires a process in which architecture can be formulated through data sets obtained from a site. In this case, urban forces such as connectivity and density are two parameters chosen as an architectural model for overpopulation.


The continuity of the Yarra river has been disturbed by the dead space caused by Crown Plaza. The urban intervention here is to address this disconnection by propose a new connective tissue activated with public green space which also serve as a fashion school.


Sunday, August 9, 2009
Monday, August 3, 2009
3D Voronoi Script Test

Software: 3ds MAX 9 SP2
Script: 3D Voronoi Cell by Garp 2008
Modeling Time: 3 mins
This test is inspired by materialsystems.org in their exploration on Voronoi Morphologies
The script creates a specified number of Voronoi cells from a Bounding Volume and Cell Centers. A few V_cells are deleted just for the sake of a more interesting visual appearance.
The final product has their local polygons 'inset' and deleted to create openings rather than a full solid mass. 'Shell' and 'Turbosmooth' modifier is applied also for a more realistic and interesting visual.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
MArch 2nd Year - Parametric Urbanism + System Theory
Sunday, July 5, 2009
another graphic attempt... mood board

The mood I'm trying to express here is about creating order in chaos.... using systems theory to generate a parametric structure for the growth of Melbourne CBD to 1 million population.
How do we suggest a kind of structured growth that within a certain constraint? What are our parameters? What should my city be made out of?
However, in the end, I think the graphic tells more of the initial attempt of a designer where he is still uncertain of what to do when he looked at the 'mess'....
damn... should get help from sid and nathu for this...
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Climatic Skin by ASYMPTOTE
The YAS Hotel is a collaborative project between Hani Rashid from ASYMPTOTE with ARUP. This project has again taken a 'climatic skin' like a blanket covering and creating a controlled environment.
Well, if the Black Oil can afford to pay this kind of ROOFchitecture... go for it man....


Have they worked out a way to get the glass panels clean?


images taken from:
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/asymptote/yas/yas.html
another 3DSMAX render test on semi-outdoor lighting
Freelance Interior Rendering - Exhibition on David Lynch @ ACMI, Melbourne
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