Solar Radiation Technology Preview for Revit 2011

Use the Autodesk Solar Radiation Technology Preview for Revit 2011 to understand and quantify solar radiation on various surfaces of your conceptual building model.

Using the Autodesk Solar Radiation Technology Preview during the conceptual design stage of your project can help you make informed design decisions about building shape, orientation, and shading strategies early on when changes are least expensive.

The technology preview uses the geometry of conceptual massing elements from Revit and calculates the amount of solar radiation hitting the selected surfaces of the massing shapes, based on location and weather data. It is possible to display the distribution and availability of solar radiation over an entire building or even a city block. This can be particularly useful when considering shading requirements or assessing the best areas to place photovoltaics for maximum collection.

The Autodesk Solar Radiation Technology Preview is modeless and delivers an integrated experience within the Revit environment. This experience is made possible by the Analysis Visualization Framework, Dynamic Model Update, and other new API’s made available with the Autodesk Revit 2011 family of products.

This technology preview is a limited term release to seek customer feedback on its performance and expires on November 5th, 2010.

Below is video showing the presentation:

Via Autodesk Labs

Lumitectura: Light, Music and Architecture

Lumitectura is a music video by barno about the relation of light, music and architecture. Check it out:

The clip is defined by 3 elements.

-One videofile, shot between 2 and 6 pm.
-The speed of playback of this file, which is synchronised manually to the music.
-Approximately 50 different masks, which define where the underlayed movie is going to appear on the screen. This makes it possible to have multiple light situations in the same moment.

Via Digital Urban

Singapore Photos

Photos from my visit to Singapore

Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer

Video: SketchUp for Illustration

Here is a great time-lapse video showing how a SketchUp user called elfpainter from Korea uses SketchUp and Paint.net to create comic illustrations.

Via sketchuptips

HDR Photography with Trey Ratcliff

A great video showing how HDR photography is carried out.

Via scottycentral

LET ME LIVE: architecture final project by Nir levie and Tomer dikerman

Tel Aviv University

STEMcloud v2.0 / ecoLogicStudio

Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto, founders of ecoLogicStudio at the Beyond Media Festival in Florence, talked about one of their latest projects, the STEMcloud v2.0:

As is a really new and avant-garde vision about parametric and genetic architecture and the way that human interaction can bring new life to architecture projects:

The STEMcloud v2.0 project proposes the development and testing of an architectural prototype operating as an oxygen making machine. The project has been presented and designed for the SEVILLE ART and ARCHITECTURAL BIENNALE 2008.

STEMcloud v2.0 technological matrix will operate as a breeding ground for micro-ecologies found in the local river of Seville, the Guadalquivir, and will involve the public in the breeding process. The transparency and porosity of the architectural system allows the process to be visually and materially exposed and interfere with the microclimate of the gallery; the public will feed the colonies present in the river water with nutrients, light and CO2 and as a result oxygenate the gallery space; the growth process will be triggered by patterns of interaction with the public and in turn will affects these patterns with its visual effects. Multiple feedback cycles are provoked within the components of the system, with the gallery environment and within the city itself.

This extended model of systemic architecture can be framed and understood in cybernetic terms as a multilayer crossing of feedback loops; cybernetics provides an operational framework to deal with change and transformation, the two main defining qualities of our new ecologic understanding of architecture; the starting point of the experiment is artificially defined by us and provides what scientist call a primed condition necessary to promote interaction.

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Via archdaily

Video on how to shoot an HDR photo by Stuck in Customs

Below is a video which shows how Trey Ratcliff of Stuck in Customs takes an HDR photo of a scene in Yellowstone:


This video does not talk about the software process. For more on that, you can visit the HDR Tutorial.

HDR Meets After Effects

High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography brings out the full vibrancy of urban images. Brian Przypek has combined HDR with After Effects with notable results:

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HDR Meets After Effects from Brian Przypek on Vimeo.

Brian is a Cinematographer, Photographer, HDR Enthusiast, check out red-shooter.com for more of his work.

Via Digital Urban

My Digital Art

Kangana Ranaut

An artistic impression of Kangana Ranaut: A bollywood actress.

More of my digital art can be viewed HERE.