Digital fingerpainting art on iPad
Portrait artist David Kassan has joined an emerging community of iPad artists, showing the world that the iPad can essentially replace the artist’s sketchbook, using the Brushes app to create a painting of a live model of a man. Kassan’s use of the iPad as a canvas was brought to mainstream attention by Stephen Fry on Twitter, and we’re so happy he did.
As you’ll see in the video, he starts out quite roughly but very quickly starts looking like an actual oil painting. Continue Reading....
Archicad 14 trial on MyArchicad
So Graphisoft has finally released the reins on the new free Archicad 14 trials, ranging from the Professional, Student, Teacher, and School versions. They each give you a 30-day free trial + the ability to download and try out a bunch of great add-ons and partnering software
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“Fallingwater” , a.k.a the Kaufmann residence, designed by Frank Lloyed Wright in 1935 is a very well known house in the architecture community. There have been many who have remade the house in 3D CAD, exploring the intricacies of the house on top of the waterfall, but an architecture student called Kasperg has gone a step further, creating a 3D model of the house, not using traditional CAD but rather the Source Code of the Half Life, the science fiction first-person shooter computer game.
The short film demonstrates the visualisation quality of Half Life, and games engines in general, for standard walkthroughs and even fly-throughs, providing a very good example of alternative uses for game engines.
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How to use Apple's Magic Mouse with CAD!
Back in
October 2009, Apple surprised us with a new
introduction to the mac peripherals, the Magic
Mouse the world’s first multi-touch mouse. In the
past Apple hasn’t been very successful with its
mice, but many are starting to come around now that
the company has seemed to have nailed it.
The drawback has been
for us CAD users that there’s one tiny thing
missing..... the essential middle scroll wheel...!
Without it to pan + zoom, and orbit around a model,
it just takes ages to model anything really - thus
rendering the device quite useuless for 3D design.
Well despair no longer, there is a
way.....
Viewing PSD files on iPad? Adobe wants your input
Adobe + Apple may not have the greatest relationship of late - due to the neverending “no flash on the iPhone or iPad” grudge - but it seems Adobe is trying to sneak their way in again, as they first did by collaborating with Wired to create a very interactive and immersive version of the magazine for the iPad with InDesign CS5.
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Archicad 14 : focus on exchange + interoperability
So, if you remember last month I mentioned Graphisoft was releasing the new version of Archicad, well a couple of days ago they finally announced the launch of Archicad 14 due to ship next month!
As you may know, Archicad is usually used for architectural modelling, but the newest version is focusing on greater integration and collaboration workflow of the architect and the engineer, aiming to squeeze in to the multi-discipline practices’ workflow.
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BIM on iPad shown off by Bentley systems
A great find for today, Laura Handler of bimX has had an interesting encounter at the annual Bentley conference - BE Community Live - with some tablet technology + a bit of augmented reality in the mix.
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archiCADmonkey musings on iPad
Hey everyone, just a quick update. If you’ve been following me on twitter @acmonkey you probably noticed that on Friday (which coincidently was the day of the iPad launch in the UK) I went out for a quick jog, having no intention of going by my nearest Apple store (Manchester Arndale) but somehow ended up there, and I thought I may as well try the iPad out to actually see if it’s any good.
Suffices to say, after a half hour of controlling myself my tech geek side overpowered me and I gave in. Continue Reading....
Artlantis Render Contest : June 2010
Ok so by now after the tutorial shows “Intro to Artlantis” and “Artlantis 101” you’re probably starting to get the hang of it, experimenting further with shaders and rendering a few scenes.
Now you can test your knowledge on an Artlantis Rendering Contest, created Design8 and Artlantismedia.nl. There is no modelling involved just download a ready-made model and render it to the bone! Continue Reading....
Photoshop 1.0 on iPhone
Yesterday’s post reminded me of something I had seen a couple of months ago. Although Adobe has had their Photoshop for iPhone app out for a while - which is truly awesome - many may have missed back in February when a limited-edition Adobe Photoshop 20th anniversary commemorative iPhone app was released to 50 select attendees of the anniversary event.
The app itself was a replica of Photoshop 1.0, which Adobe debuted in 1990 exclusively on the Macintosh.
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Photoshop - Ke$ha "Tik Tok" Parody
Ok I just saw this a couple of minutes ago and had to share it. For all fellow Photoshop geeks out there, Mr Anthony Dalton honours us with his hilarious parody rendition of Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok”.
Oh come on, you know you love it!
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Autocad finally coming to the Mac!
It seems the Fates have not forsaken us!
A couple of months ago I had mentioned that Autodesk had conducted an online survey which suggested the company was evaluating the interest of Mac CAD users, and possibly even alpha testing a Mac version of Autocad! Now it seems the rumours may have actually been true thanks to a sneaky beta tester from Italy....
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Integrated versus discrete graphics, which one?!
It’s a bit confusing which choice to make if you’re buying a new Mac or PC to get high quality and fast processing graphics needed for 3D design. Do you go with an integrated graphics card - meaning that it’s built directly into the motherboard (or logic-board for macs) circuitry - or with a “discrete” one, which is a separate dedicated Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) usually hooked up directly to the board ?
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