Casa Lim #2

Design of this house enquires wrapping of a strip of programs around a central courtyard. I guess the side effects of this method is that it causes a fortress-like building whereby the entired spatial experience is internalised.

Looks cool doesn't it?

Because of the fortified design outcome, the 'programmatic strip' is let loose at the end point to readdress the external space and to allow a more welcoming atmosphere upon entrance.

Sorry Jürgen Mayer + MVRDV, had no choice but to rip the hell out of you. Hohohoho~!

Inside 'char siew' outside 'pao', inside outside 'char siew pao'

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.

7. You may wanna use sylight. You can try turning it 'on' first and do a test render after step12.

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'

adjust render region to test render

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~!!!~

Not great.. but hei... it's fast and simple.

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?

me and ping sie on a trip to somewhere on the east sideeeeee of peninsular malaysia. Wonder who took this picture...hmm..

Villa Lim #2_on the process

It's time for 'us' to change the way we look

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.

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...

another 3DSMAX render test on semi-outdoor lighting

1. mental.ray.daylighting.high
2. Final Gather enabled- FG point = 100
3. Global Illumination enabled
4. rendering time: 1hr 15mins

Freelance Interior Rendering - Exhibition on David Lynch @ ACMI, Melbourne

1. mental.ray.daylighting.high
2. Final Gather enabled- FG point = 100
3. Global Illumination enabled
4. rendering time: 46 mins

1. Entrance

2. exhbition area

Freelance Interior Rendering - Eco-Centre

1. mental.ray.daylighting.high
2. Final Gather enabled
- FG point = 100
3. Global Illumination enabled
4. rendering time: 27 mins

3dsMAX Crowding exercise_

3DSMAX_crowd_simulation.gif (192kb)

This is actually an unsuccessfult attempt for me to generate form with the 3dsMAX 'crowd' dynamics. However, this is what I've learned:

1. The crowds are generated from delegates, behaviour is too limited to determine or predict any social behaviour. However, these behaviours can be tweaked via scripting, MAXscript. This may take weeks to months. So, I'm letting it go...

2. With the basic behaviours such as 'seek', 'wander', 'target', 'gravitation', 'repel' should be good enough for simple animation, but not so much as for "simulation".

The GIF file may not work properly due to Google Docs

Outdoor VRay Render Test

VRay settings:
GI - 1.25 Irradiance Map
- 0.85 Light Cache
Adaptive QMC
HSV Exponential
VRay Sun @ 0.01 Intensity Multiplier

another photoshop experiment... lighten

Main Image:
Random scatter of a box within certain constraints set in 3ds MAX compound objects.

Rendered with Light Tracer
image above: the 'lighten' effect is used with a concrete as the background map and brightness and contrast is adjusted

'Difference' effect with bricks.jpg as foreground image. Effect is mostly controlled by the 'fill = %' of the foreground image.

hyphothesis:
1.'difference' effect gives a very interesting "revealing effect" or somethng that is emerging
2. Still can't think of any use for the 'darken' effect except as background images. Old t-shirts graphics?