Rhinoceros 3d
Rhinoceros (Rhino) is a stand-alone, commercial NURBS-based 3-D modeling tool, developed by Robert McNeel & Associates. The software is commonly used for industrial design, architecture, , jewelry design, automotive design, CAD / CAM, rapid prototyping, reverse engineering as well as the multimedia and graphic design industries.
Rhino was originally distributed as a free, open beta.
The development is on-going; version 4.0 Service Release 6 is current with version 5.0 expected in 2010.
Rhinoceros 3d
Rhino specializes in free-form NURBS modeling. Plug-ins developed by McNeel include Flamingo (raytrace rendering), Penguin (non-photorealistic rendering) , Brazil (advanced rendering). Over 100 third-party plugins are also available. There are also rendering plug-ins for Maxwell Render, Brasil and V-ray. Rhino also features a scripting language based on the Visual Basic language, and an SDK that allows reading and writing Rhino files directly. Grasshopper plug-in for parametric modeling. Rhino's increasing popularity is based on its diversity, multi-disciplinary functions, low learning-curve, relatively low cost, and its ability to import and export over 30 file formats.
Rhinoceros 3d
Rhino plug-ins: PointSet Reconstruction ArrayCrv Plus Armadillo Panelling Tools Rhinknowbot Quantum Transform Constructive elements Magic Mirror Advanced Flattening Cloth Simulation 3d Graph Interpolation Circle Packing Electric Field Simulation Visual Arq Grasshoper Bongo animation tools
Rhinoceros 3d PointSet Reconstruction
PSR is the process of creating 'higher level' geometry from ordinary points.
Delaunay triangulation Delaunay triangulation is a 2.5Dimensional process of fitting triangles through unorganized points so that there are no gaps left in a mesh. It is well suited for recreating surfaces that are implied by a collection of points. The output is always a mesh (not a nurbs surface) and it cannot deal with z-based overlap of points. The mesh can be coloured using several different shader algorithms
Rhinoceros 3d PointSet Reconstruction Connectivity network Connectivity networks are about point neighbours. They can be used to map to the nearest neighbours in a large cloud. At this point, networks are still 2D entities. Connections between points can be limited to a certain amount per point, or to a certain length of the connection or both.
Rhinoceros 3d PointSet Reconstruction Pixel grid PixelGrids are tables consisting of rows and columns, the cells of which are assigned a value depending on how many points they contain. Cells with no points are omitted which means there is potentially a jagged border
Rhinoceros 3d PointSet Reconstruction Quad tree QuadTree subdivision is the partitioning of space into discrete rectangles where every rectangle contains a number of points from the original pointcloud and all boxes together contain all points. Rectangles are subdivided if they contain more than N points, or if they exceed a certain area value or some other threshold
Rhinoceros 3d PointSet Reconstruction Oc tree OcTree subdivision is the partitioning of space into discrete blocks where every box contains a number of points from the original pointcloud and all boxes together contain all points. Boxes are subdivided if they contain more than N points, or if they exceed a certain volume value or some other threshold
Rhinoceros 3d PointSet Reconstruction Voronoi subdivision Voronoi subdivision is the partitioning of space into discrete cells where every cell contains all possible coordinates that are closer to the local point than any other point in the set. It usually results in a very natural division of space similar to stacked soapbubbles. Voronoi diagrams too suffer from organised input so they might need noise to overcome faulty solutions.
Rhinoceros 3d PointSet Reconstruction
3d voronoi
Rhinoceros 3d ArrayCrv Plus
ArrayCrvPLUS enables new ways to distribute items along path curves or path curves on surfaces ( polysurfaces, meshes ). It will array any number of items along any number of curve paths. Parameters can be adjusted with preview functionality. In addition, while arraying curves or points, ArrayCrvPLUS can automatically create Loft/Sweep1 surfaces or InterpolatedCurves based on created array of profile items.
Rhinoceros 3d Armadillo
Armadillo is a RhinoScripted plugin based on generative arrays of items along path curves. It can create wide range of solutions: from the simple array along one curve to complex ribs and paneling systems, with extensive set of transformation features and interactive preview.
Rhinoceros 3d Panelling Tools
PanelingTools plugin helps generate 2D and 3D cellular patterns and populate them over rectangular grids. the plug-in supports intuitive design of paneling concepts as well as rationalize complex geometry into a format that is suitable for analysis and fabrication. The plug-in is closely integrated with Rhino 4.0 and is widely used for architectural and other building designers.
2d pattern
Rhinoceros 3d Panelling Tools
3d pattern
Rhinoceros 3d Quantum Transform Random deformations This plugin exposes tweaked versions of Move, Scale and Rotate that allow you to transform a bunch of objects with different settings simultaneously. The transformation is random within the specified bounds.
Rhinoceros 3d Constructive elements Flange This plugin for Rhino4 aims to supply some non-generic shape creation tools.
Rhinoceros 3d MagicMirror
This is a plugin for Rhino4 which attempts to link any videoprovider on your computer (usually a webcam) to an emapchannel.
Rhinoceros 3d Advanced Flattening The Squish command flattens a non-developable (curved in two directions) 3-D mesh or NURBS surface into a flat 2-D pattern The Squish command marks areas of compression (red point cloud) and stretching (green point cloud) and displays statistics about the amount of compression or stretch.
Rhinoceros 3d Advanced Flattening
The SquishBack command lets you place points and curves on a 2-D pattern, that was made with the Squish command, and then "unsquish" them back to the 3-D shape.
Rhinoceros 3d Cloth Simulation Some results from a Cloth Simulation experiment as presented in 2006 at the University f端r Angewandte Kunst in Vienna.
Plug-in in progress
Rhinoceros 3d 3d Graph Interpolation
This plugin creates a smooth colour distribution over a 3D mesh based on spatial relationships of sample points. A sample point is a combination of a 3D coordinate and a sample value. When multiple sample points occupy the same space, the sample value at any given coordinate can be guessed (interpolated).
Rhinoceros 3d Circle Packing
This plugin was made during the London 2007 DotNET workshop. It is a very simple circle packing algorithm which iteratively attempts to find a solution.
Rhinoceros 3d Rhiknowbot
Rhinoceros 3d Rhiknowbot
RHIKNOWBOT simulates the way of assembling building assemblies in physical world. It constructs components in according to types and locations of component partitions on the selected construction surface areas on which these components are to be populated. RHIKNOWBOT provides mechanism to automatically orient and locate the plan and section profiles of these component partitions on the selected surfaces according to the spatial arrangement of these profiles in relation to the construction surfaces that is determined by the users.
Rhinoceros 3d Rhiknowbot
Rhinoceros 3d Electric Field Simulation
A basic electric vector field solver for Rhino4
Rhinoceros 3d Electric Field Simulation
Once you have defined at least one charge object, you can run the solver. Before a solver begins it will ask you to select a number of active charge objects, all objects that are recognized as proper charge objects will be highlighted while the command is running.
VisualARQ is a fully-integrated plugin that adds architectural tools to Rhinoceros V4+. Using the accessible and intuitive Rhino interface, VisualARQ provides tools for architects, planners, and interior designers that make the architectural design process and its documentation easy. VisualARQ adds parametric 3-D architectural objects like walls, columns, doors, windows, and stairs that are suitable for both 3-D modeling and 2-D documentation. With VisualARQ’s feature-based editor you can create and edit your own smart/custom architectural objects.
Grasshoper For designers who are exploring new shapes using generative algorithms, GrasshopperŽ is a graphical algorithm editor tightly integrated with Rhino’s 3-D modeling tools. Unlike RhinoScript, Grasshopper requires no knowledge of programming or scripting, but still allows designers to build form generators from the simple to the awe-inspiring.
Rhinoceros 3d Grasshoper
Rhinoceros 3d Grasshoper
Rhinoceros 3d Grasshoper
Bongo animation tools Animate moving, scaling, and rotating Rhino objects without exporting. Objects and viewport animations are editable in the Rhino window using simple drag and drop. Modify your objects and motion data without losing valuable time changing between programs. Easily preview your animations inside Rhino, in real time, in any shading mode by scrubbing the timeline or playing the animation.