Modeling the Environment Techniques and Tools for the 3D Illustration of Dynamic Landscapes

by Cantrell, Bradley; Yates, Natalie

• ISBN13: 9780470902943
• ISBN10: 0470902949
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-03-27
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

This full-color book fills a gap in our design drawing and presentation publishing list by offering coverage of 3D visualization tools for land planning and landscape architecture. The methods and theories presented in Environmental Modeling, Illustration and Animation focus landscape representation around a core set of ideas that begins to center representation on human experience. Current technology allows designers to model environmental phenomena and space in new and exciting ways that go beyond the two dimensional plane. The models, illustrations, and animations that can be created usher in a new paradigm of landscape representation that can become analytical tools as well as beautiful imagery.

Author Biography

Bradley Cantrell is Principal and Partner at Visual Logic, Inc.; Partner at LND Digital Workshop, Digital Media Training and Consulting; and Associate Professor in the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University. He is the coauthor of Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture (Wiley). Natalie Yates is Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Overview of Media

Digital Media Industries

Digital Media

Representation, Illustration and Simulation

Design Practice

Scene

Diorama: Setting the Stage

Arranging the Elements

Composition & Views

Movement in the Environment

Object

Object

Overview Modeling

Using CAD Linework

Polygon Modeling

Spline Modeling

Materiality

Terrain

Terrain

Surface

Terrain Construction

Terrain Modeling

Meshes

Surface Materials

Distributions

Atmosphere

Lighting

Atmosphere

Rendering and Lighting Systems

Atmospheric Conditions

Advanced and Realtime Lighting Systems

Temporal Atmospheres

Simulation

Animation

Linking

Controllers

Animation Techniques

Simulation

Rigid Bodies

Simulation

Particles and Soft Bodies

Scripting

Composite

Composite Imagery

Composite

Scene States

Batch

Illustrative Composite

Animated Composite

Bibliography

Image Credits

Index

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