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Category Archives: Reviews
Digital vs. Analog Design – Støckel quests the limits of Representation
It’s difficult to teach young architects how to make objects (and surrounding spaces) relate to one-another in an intentional way. Intentionality requires the mastery of abstract concepts like order, harmony, contrast, proportion, scale and repetition.. not to mention enviable craft … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Models, 3D Tech, Architecture, Artists, History, PaperCraft, Physible, Reviews, SketchUp, Uncategorized
Tagged 3D Model Making, Analog vs. Digital Design Methods, Architecture Design Studio, D-school, Danish Artist Tommy Støckel, Design Intentionality, Design Pedagogy, Design Theory, Digital vs. Analog, Intenionality vs. Expressiveness, paper art, papercraft, Rhino, Sketchup, Teaching Architectural Design, The Design Studio
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PhotoSurreal – Camera Emphasises Time over Space
Jay Mark Johnson—an architect and renaissance man— purchased a $85,000 rotating slit-scan camera for high-resolution panoramas. (The camera records vast landscapes sliver by sliver.) Finding the accidental effects of motion in front of the camera strangely poetic, he experimented with … Continue reading
The 3D ‘Content Problem’
by Fred Abler A problem with most CAD software companies is they are not abundant thinkers. They operate in a paradigm of scarcity. The market is a zero-sum game. There are ‘winners and losers’, and so content creators and other … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Models, 3D Printing, 3D Tech, BIM, Digital Fabrication, History, Maker Movement, Physible, Reviews, SketchUp, Theory & Concepts, Uncategorized
Tagged Apple Maps fiasco, CAD content, CAD Marketing, copyright on 3D objects, DEP for 3D, Digital Rights Management, DRM for 3D, Google Maps, Intellecutal Ventures, Nathan Myhrvold, Patents for 3D Printing, quality 3D content, software industry, the content problem
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ESRI just got a whole lot more… 3D
Esri announced this week the availability of CityEngine Web Viewer in ArcGIS Online this week, allowing anyone with a WebGL-enabled browser to navigate and explore uploaded 3D cities and environments created in CityEngine 2012. It is, in a word, awesome. … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Models, 3D Tech, Architecture, BIM, GeoDesign, Reality Hacking, Reviews
Tagged 3D GIS, 3D Maps, 3D Models, City of Philadelphia, CityEngine, ESRI, Geodesign Tools, Sam Pfeifle, Spar Point Group., Urban Design tools
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FoldSchool – Corrugated Kid-Craft
It’s August and everyone is (or wants to be) on vacation, including yours truly. So how about kicking it fold’school? Here’s a post that’s easy to read, and gives you a lot of ideas for fun-times with the kids this … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Models, Artists, For Fun, Origami, PaperCraft, Reviews, Technical Origami
Tagged Cardboard projects for kids, Corrugated Cardboard, DIY furnture, DIY Playground equipment, FoldSchool, Grace Hawthorne, Masahiro Minami, Nicola Enrico Stäubli, Paper Punk, Playtime Papercraft, Projects for kids, Tuchino Kids
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DIY for Reality Hackers – FOV2Go
by Fred Abler This blog curates an eclectic range of 3D topics. Very occasionally I find newsworthy items that touch on two topics. But never before have I found emerging research that covers them all at once… and that is … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Tech, Augmented Reality, Maker Movement, Reviews, Virtual Reality
Tagged 3D Research, App Store, AR, Augmented Reality, FOV2Go, Immersive VR, Mixed Reality, MxR Lab, Perry Hoberman, Reality Hackers, stereoscopic unity package, Unity, Unity VR, Unity3D game engine, University of Southern California, USC, virtual reality, VR, VR App, VR Kit
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‘One Piece At A Time’
by Fred Abler Finally, paper craft is getting some respect. Tomorrow July 15th, a ‘major’ work of art will open at the Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield Connecticut. 3D Artist Jonathan Brand’s life-scale paper replica of a 69’ Ford Mustang will … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Tech, Artists, For Fun, Monumental Origami, PaperCraft, Reviews, Theory & Concepts
Tagged 3D Art, 3D Artist, 69 Mustang, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Autodesk 3DS Max, Johnny Cash, Jonathan Brand, One Piece at a Time, Paper craft, Paper sculpture, papercraft, Parson's New School, Pepakura Designer, Rhino 3D
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Brilliant Lighting Design – Delta V Series Pendants
by Fred Abler For functional beauty, it’s hard to beat lighting. The function is brilliantly clear, and the beauty.. well it’s hard to make something that glows ugly. Consequently there is a lot of good lighting, but truly brilliant lighting … Continue reading
Posted in Artists, Interior Design, Reviews, SketchUp, Uncategorized
Tagged 3D Models, Alexander Wiliams, Architects, astrodynamics, Bicycle Wheel sculpture, Charles Brill, chop-socky, Delta Pendant Light, Delta Pendant Series, Eames, Edward Hopper, Excell Floor Lamp, forced association, Gabriel Concha, ICFF, Interior Architects, Interior Designers, International Contemporary Furniture Faire, lighting, lighting design, Noguchi, RBW, Request 3D Model. FormFonts 3D Models, Rhode Island School of Design, Rich Brilliant Willing, RISD, semantics, Sketchup, Theo Richardson, Trig Floor Lamp, tripod floor lamps
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New Ascetics
by Fred Abler Something small is happening. A generation of young people have come down with ‘cabin fever’. The viral vector spreading this fever is a tumble-log called Cabin Porn. If you haven’t heard about it yet, well… you just … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Reviews, SketchUp, Theory & Concepts, Tools
Tagged 3D Model of cabins, 3D model of Nido House, Alan Fraser, Ascetics, Cabin Porn, Cabins, FormFonts 3D, FormFonts 3D Models, Fred Abler, Gaston Bachelard, hipster angst, inner thoreau, Micro House, Minimalist Movement, Nido, perverse simplicity, psychological sanctuary, The Architecture of Happiness, The Poetics of Space, Tumblr
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