Interactive 3D Visualization of Building Envelope Systems Using Infrared Thermography and Sketch Up

Infrared thermography also known as thermal imaging can provide accurate, nondestructive information about the thermal envelope performance of any building. This includes validation of structural details, verification of energy performance (conduction and air leakage), location of moisture intrusion, and the identification of structural and system degradation of roofs and facades. Thermography has been used since the 1960s to detect and diagnos…

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Creating Texture – Assets for Computer Games

Creating Texture – Assets for Computer Games. Textures are 2d images which are stretched and tiled onto a 3d “mesh”. They are the “surface” of everything you see. This texture tutorial show a few methods for making game textures. This tutorial set will be broken into several small tutorials, each tackling different textures, and each tutorial expanding on the last. None of the techniques are to be taken as definitive. There are many ways to crea…

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Blender Tutorial : Head Modeling

…orial will take you through the whole process from setting up a background image as a reference, to laying out the topology, to tweaking the final model proportions and mesh structure. You have to mastering the basic tools of blender 3d to follow this tutorial with easily. Blender Tutorial : Modeling Head Part 1 Blender Tutorial : Modeling Head Part 2…

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Blender Radiosity Tutorial 2

This blender 3d radiosity tutorial will teach you how to work with radiosity and how to apply textures after the radiosity process is finished. Matthew R. Duncan as the author says “I assume that you are already familiar with creating meshes, applying materials, and have a general understanding of the Blender interface. While you can certainly use your own scene for this tutorial, I have provided my Raider mesh below as a starting point.&#…

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Photorealistic Kitchen in Blender and Yafaray

This tutorial by Karan Shah, consist with 96 step to modeling, texturig and Render a Photorealistic Kitchen in Blender and Yafaray (a free ray tracing, open source rendering engine). You have to install Yafray and Python 2.5 first in your computer. Yafray is an open source, high quality photorealistic render system, as being developed on www.yafray.org. With the 2.32 Blender release, the two programs now will closely cooperate. Yafray rendering…

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