South Africa Rhino User Meeting, March 2010

South Africa Rhino User Meeting - Architecture & Engineering Focus

Simply Rhino SA is hosting another Rhino User Group meeting this time in Johannesburg. Jon Mirtschin of Geometry Gym Ltd. will present on utilising Rhino3d for geometrical modelling primarily for architecture and structure. Techniques used to model projects such as the 2012 Olympic Velodrome, Infinity Footbridge and Beijing Watercube will be demonstrated. Innovative tools for geometric modelling including geodesic domes, minimal surfaces, mesh relaxing, tessellation and parametric steel frame modelling will also be featured.

This two hour event is a great opportunity to network & share experiences with other local users of Rhino and Rhino related software.

When? :
Sat 27th March, 9am -11am

Where?:
Department of Industrial Design
University of Johannesburg
1 Bunting Road, Auckland Park
FADA Building, Ground floor (Industrial Design Computer Room)

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Digital and Physical Modeling workshop, Taiwan

Dates: March 31-April 1, 2010
Location: National Cheng Kung University
Design Theory and Computation Group, Department of Architecture, NCKU
Instructor: Anna Liu & Mike Tonkin, Sheng-Fen Chien and Wen-Yu Tu

Schedule:
Day 1 - Wednesday, March 31
900~1100 Design lecture by Liu & Tonkin
1100~1230 Part I: Rhino training
1330~1500 Teamwork: Case Study, Shell
1500~1700 Part II: Rhino training with CNC
1700~1800 Teamwork: Taxi Shelter design

Day 2 - Thursday, April 1
830~1230 Teamwork: Design development, stucture and construction
1330~1700 Teamwork: Model building and poster making
1700~1800 Final Presentation

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Level 1 Rhino, OSU Tulsa, May 24-26

The Continuing Education department at Oklahoma State University is offering a Level 1 Rhino course at their Tulsa campus. In this comprehensive three-day class you will learn to create and edit accurate free-form 3D NURBS models.

• Dates: May 24-26, 2010
• Location: OSU Tulsa Campus
• Instructor: Seung Ra, Assistant Professor, OSU School of Architecture & Authorized Rhino Trainer
• Price: $625.00

Please contact Rose Mangold or call (405) 744-5714 if you have any questions or would like additional information. Seats are limited, register online today.

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Grasshopper workshop: Cover the Ward, NY

Cover the Ward!

Parapractice Brooklyn invites students and professionals to attend two weekend workshops exploring the exciting world of Digital Design + Fabrication.

The workshop will introduce participants to Parametric Design strategies and conclude with the fabrication and installation of a new canopy over the 3rd Ward courtyard.

The focus of the workshop will be an in depth look at Grasshopper and its real world implications.

Dates: April 17-18, April 23-25
Location: The 3rd Ward, 195 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn, NY

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Baselworld 2010

Basel, Switzerland, March 18-25 2010.

BaselWorld is the leading event for the watch and jewellery industry. A unique opportunity where 2,100 exhibitors - specialists in watches, jewellery, precious gems and related brands - showcase their latest products to those in the industry.

Come visit Rhinoceros authorized resellers and industry partners to learn more about 3D Modeling, 3D Scanning, 3D Printing and CNC Milling:

• TDM Solutions - Hall 3.U, Stand J34
Learn more about Rhino, RhinoGold and TDM's new rendering plug-in: RhinoGold Render Studio.

• Design-Engineering - Hall 3.U , Stand E61
Resellers of Rhino and jewellery-oriented solutions such as Matrix and RhinoJewel.

RhinoDirect 0.2 Available

RhinoDirect from LEDAS Ltd. is a new plug-in that allows users to parametrically edit history-free 3D geometry in Rhinoceros. The second pre-release version is now available. Some of the new features include:

• geometric constraints and driving dimensions are now stored when users perform commands such as copy-and-paste and importing models from other 3DM files
• constraints and dimensions are no longer deleted when users modify geometry with Rhino commands, such as for holes, fillets, and Boolean operations
• the plug-in now correctly supports Rhino’s built-in history
• the plug-in can now parametrize arbitrary solid bodies composed of planar and cylindrical faces independently of their orientation with each other

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Essential Mathematics for Computational Design

The first edition of "Essential Mathematics for Computational Design" is now available with free download:

Essential Mathematics uses Grasshopper to introduce design professionals to foundation mathematical concepts that are necessary for effective development of computational methods for 3D modeling and computer graphics.

Python scripting in Rhino OS X

There is a new pre-release Rhino OS X build available, Wenatchee 2010-03-08, with many new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. Including:

Additions:

• Rhino OS X now runs Python scripts. See this forum post for further information.

Changes:

• Various bug fixes.

Everyone is invited to download and use the OS X version of Rhino while it is in development.

Most of the core functionality has been ported from Windows and is very stable. There is still much to do to port the rest of the functionality and refine the interface.

We don't expect the first commercial release to be ready for at least a year. Don't worry if the build you are using is about to expire. New versions will be available every few weeks. There will be a newer one available before the expiration date.

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TecnoGold 2010, São Paulo, Brazil

TecnoGold 2010 is the 12th Annual Technology Fair for Gems and Design in the jewelry industry. TecnoGold 2010 will be held in São Paulo, Brazil on April 22-24.

Location: Centro de Eventos São Luis, São Paulo
Dates: April 22, 23, 24

Come and see RhinoGOLD, RhinoGOLD Render Studio, and Brazil for Rhino.

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Bongo 2.0 WIP 9 Now Available

You are invited to try the Bongo 2.0 animation plug-in for Rhino 4.0. The ninth work-in-progress version is now available.










Download Bongo 2.0 WIP 9 from here.

RhinOffsets, new plug-in

RhinOffsets, a new plug-in from BaseLine Technology, allows you to quickly create a table of offsets in DXF format that can be read into your Rhinoceros model or AutoCAD (or other CAD) drawing.

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"Digital Product" training at KIDP, Korea

The Korea Institute of Design Promotion (KIDP) has organized a training course on "Digital Product" utilizing Rhino, 3D Max, Maya and other digital tools. This training is hosted by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy.

• Course: Digital Product
• Dates: March 15th 2010 ~ May 24th 2010
• Location: KIDP Korea Design Center - Gyeongi-Do, Korea
• Cost: KRW 300,000 - Reimbursement after successful completion of course -Requirement details in PDF
• To Register: Send E-mail (ssun@kidp.or.kr) till March 11th, 5pm (documents required for application)
• Contact: KIDP +82-31-780-2178/2236, E-mail ssun@kidp.or.kr

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An iPhone App about Biomimetic Architecture: BioDesign #3 by Dennis Dollens

Dennis Dollens, the architect who grows buildings, has just made his work available via an iPhone App.

Dollens' latest comic carries on where his last one left off. It is about developing ideas to combine technology with biology in an architectural context. He is constantly studying plants and looking for biomimetic ideas to apply to buildings and designs, in order to create bio-architecture; clean, eco-friendly buildings that could filter pollution, harvest energy and much more.

In order to communicate these ideas and inspire others to come up with more, Dollens writes comic books. Most of them are available as downloadable PDFs via his site on Issuu, but now you can read BioDesign #3 as an iPhone application in a beautifully re-designed, much easier to handle, format.

Inspired by graphic novels and manga, BioDesign #3 illustrates Dollens' research and ideas to grow buildings just like plants, in order to create better functioning and more sustainable cities; cities as 'urban forests'. He uses the softwares Xfrog and Rhino, which allow the architect to create structures, panels or skins, mimicking branches, leaves and pots. One of the goals is to create functional services to interiors where for example reconfigured bio-robotic leaves could channel airflow for passive ventilation, air filtration, noise reduction, environmental monitoring, as well as supplemental power.

Read more here...

RhinoGold Render Studio - Professional Rendering for Jewelry

TDM Solutions is pleased to announce RhinoGold Render Studio - Professional Rendering for Jewelry.

This new product uses Brazil as the rendering engine and allows jewelers create professional images easily and fast.

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Grasshopper Advanced Design workshop with ecoLogicStudio, London

WS2 RESPONSIVE SKINS - Grasshopper Advanced Design workshop with ecoLogicStudio

Time: March 18, 2010 at 9am to March 26, 2010 at 7pm
Location: Simply Rhino UK - London
Organized By: ecoLogicstudio

Event Description:
Can the dichotomy between obsessive tooling and strong design agenda be overcome? Can innovative software like Grasshopper be the ideal platform to marry computation, creativity and ecologic thinking? The workshop will engage these questions introducing a novel parametric modelling technique which will allow Grasshopper to connect to the web and be fed by live environmental data-streams. Architects, Landscape architects, Urban designers and students alike will find in the workshops a unique chance to improve their design skills while confronting themselves with the most debated advanced design subjects. The Workshop will involve 4 days of intensive design workshop with staff from experimental design and consultancy practice ecoLogicStudio and a final event-discussion with expert guests from the field of architecture, landscape and urban design. Program here.

See more details and RSVP on the Grasshopper website or at Simply Rhino UK website.

Indoor Skate Bowl

Comvert, the alternative fashion company that makes clothing for skateboarders and snowboarders under the ‘Bastard’ brand turned its Milan headquarters into an indoor skate bowl. Milan architects Studiometrico with the support of engineering firm Atelier LC executed the renovation of a cinema into a retail store, offices, and an indoor skate bowl.

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co|Lab Parametric Design to Fabrication Workshop, Philadelphia

modeLab + PointB Design are pleased to announce their upcoming Parametric Design to Fabrication Workshop in Philadelphia. The training will introduce participants to the cultural, technological, and tectonic domain of parametric design and digital fabrication in a fast-paced and hands-on learning environment.

• Dates: April 3-4, 2010
• Location: PointB Studio, Philadelphia, PA
• Contact: StudioMode or call (347) 788-0570
• Cost: $650.00

Space is limited; sign up early. Laptops required.

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MorphoLuminescence, user story

Designed by PROJECTiONE, MorphoLuminesence is a kinetic ceiling prototype, originally described as a simple surface in Rhino. The surface was triangulated into panels or "petals" using a combination of the PanelingTools plug-in and manual modeling based on a specific tesselation logic.

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Rhino used in "Shutter Island" movie

Image courtesy of New Deal Studios

New Deal Studios Digital set designer and illustrator, Scott Schneider, recently completed work on the film, Shutter Island. Rhino was used to design the lighthouse and ward c exterior and interior miniatures and is an integral part of the New Deal Studios art department workflow.

Organic Surfacing for Design training in NYC

T-Splines is offering an Organic Surfacing for Design course in New York City. In this accelerated, one-day class you will learn:

• Basic properties of T-Spline surfaces.
• Multiple approaches for modeling with T-Splines, including using an input of NURBS curves and surfaces, box modeling, and completely organic modeling.
• How to integrate T-Splines with Rhino and NURBS in a production workflow.

Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Location: Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City
Price: US$249 for early registration before March 6th; US$399 for registration starting March 6th

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I-Deco Istanbul, March 3-7

March 3-7, i-deco - Istanbul (Turkey) - Hall 6, Stand A-611 (3D Dream)

I-Deco Istanbul 2010 is a Decoration and Design fair.

Turkish Rhino reseller 3D Dream will be exhibiting at Hall 6 - Stand A-611 and showing the following products: Rhino, Brazil, V-Ray, VisualARQ, T-Splines and Grasshopper.

V-Ray rendering competition

ASGVIS invites you to enter their ICE Render-off Competition, a rendering competition for V-Ray for Rhino and V-Ray for SketchUp users. All entries must be received by 12:00AM EST on Wednesday, March 10th.

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Rhino job in Amsterdam, jewelry

Eros Gold Studio is looking for experienced designers who can handle a great load of CAD building (only Rhino), mostly diamond rings. All work is presented in a professional sketch or photo format. No artistic/creative work required. Hundreds of sketches to build.

Please send your response with some work you've done to erosgoldstudio@gmail.com

Contact: Emil Eros
Eros Gold Studio
273 Kloekhorststraat
Amsterdam, 1104MP
Netherlands
Phone: +319863513

mixexperience magazine

mixexperience, the italian Rhino social network, just announced its new magazine.

This first issue includes information about Rhino, T-Splines, Grasshopper and an interview to Giuseppe Massoni (McNeel's Tech Support in Italy) and to Riccardo Constantini (JewelsLAB).

To the mixexperience magazine (in Italian)...

T-Splines demonstration at RhinoCentre, March 26

RhinoCentre is hosting a T-Splines demonstration for designers. The demo will be given by industrial designer and Rhino expert, Gijs de Zwart. View invitation.

Date/Time: Friday, March 26th, 2:00pm

Location:
RhinoCentre
Fortwachter 1
2141EE Vijfhuizen
The Netherlands

Cost: €50
Contact: Gerard Petersen or +31 235423963.

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Elegant Ecotones: Grasshopper workshop in Bologna

Co-de-iT - Elegant Ecotones - a Grasshopper workshop in Bologna

5-19 Marzo 2010
Luogo : Pentacom - Via Petroni 18/4, Bologna

Info e iscrizioni:
www.co-de-it.com
andrea@co-de-it.com

L'ecotono è la zona di transizione tra due o più ecosistemi, ed è la zona in cui si manifestano in modo più evidente i temi di soglia, gradiente, variazione, catastrofe, dove le condizioni di limite e transizione possono essere esplorate trasformandole in configurazioni formali e architettoniche interessanti. Il workshop mira ad indagare strategie attraverso cui si manifestano le condizioni di transizione tra ecosistemi, sia in termini spaziali (dalla scala territoriale alla scala dei componenti) che in termini di evoluzione o ciclicità temporale (condizioni critiche come i cicli notte/giorno nelle zone desertiche). Il tema dell'eleganza riguarda il modo in cui il sistema produce un campo armonicamente articolato e differenziato di fenotipi a partire dal genotipo attraverso un processo di "estetica delle forze" guidata attraverso lo strumento digitale.

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KeyShot: real-time ray-tracing application, plug-in

KeyShot™ has been released by Luxion. KeyShot™ is an interactive ray-tracing and global illumination program that breaks down the complexity of creating photographic images from 3D models.

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MachStudio Pro Rhinoceros 4 Exporter, new plug-in

MachStudio Pro Exporter for Rhino is a free tool to easily export 3D assets from Rhino 4 into MachStudio native formats.

MachStudio Pro harnesses multi-threaded GPU computing to change the equation of time vs. quality. Frames that normally take 40 to 80 minutes each to render can be rendered in seconds at comparable quality. Processes which normally would be separated into specialized tasks in production, or off-loaded to render farms, are instead possible in a concise, non-linear, creative workflow.

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LaN Focus: Fabricating for Haiti, workshop

LaN Focus: Fabricating for Haiti
This four-day workshop will be taking place in Santo Domingo and will focus on the research and development of digitally fabricated structures for the displaced victims of the recent earthquake.

• Dates: March 11-14, 2010
• Location: Santo Domingo

LaN plans to use this workshop as a springboard for architectural relief in Haiti, with hopes of bringing new ideas about design and fabrication methods to the area. Ultimately LaN would like to gather a team of individuals willing to continue pursuing digital fabrication as it pertains to new construction possibilities in Haiti.

All skill levels are encouraged to attend.

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VisualARQ review by Nigel Gough

Nigel Gough has recently published a VisualARQ review on the Australian Association of Architectural Illustrators and on the American Society of Architectural Illustrators websites.