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

Cantrell, Bradley; Yates, Natalie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470902949 ISBN 13: 9780470902943

Publisher: Wiley, 2012

Synopsis

A single-source guide to harnessing the power of 3D visualization tools for analysis and representation of landscapes

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. The text focuses on digital modeling methods that can be used to express rich environments using digital tools to develop, composite, and animate scenes.

This full-color book provides coverage of 3D visualization tools for land planning and landscape architecture. The methods and theories in Modeling the Environment present landscape representation around a core set of ideas―scene, object, terrain, environment/atmosphere, time/dynamics, and the composite―that centers representation on human experience. Supported by www.lab.visual-logic.com, a website offering tutorials and forums, the text shows you how to use Autodesk 3ds Max to create dynamic landscape environments while also referring to a range of other tools including Google SketchUp, Autodesk Maya, and AutoCAD Civil 3D. It also demonstrates how to integrate 3D visualization tools into existing workflows, and offers critical coverage of intelligent drawings and representations, giving you a glimpse at the future of the profession. This book:

• Includes sections intended to build upon one another in order to understand the environment as a composite representation of multiple systems interacting
• Shows how to integrate 3D visualization tools into existing workflows, as opposed to offering an entirely new workflow
• Emphasizes modeling, animation, and simulation as both design analysis tools and presentation tools

Modeling the Environment is essential reading for professionals in landscape architecture, urban planning and design, architecture, and related disciplines who are looking to be at the forefront of technology.

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

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

This full-color book offers coverage of 3D visualization tools for land planning and landscape architecture. The methods and theories presented focus landscape representation on human experience. Supported by a dedicated Web site offering tutorials and forums, the text shows how to use tools like 3ds Max, SketchUp, Maya, and Civil 3D to create dynamic landscape environments. It also demonstrates how to integrate 3D visualization tools into existing workflows, and offers critical coverage of intelligent drawings and representations, giving readers a glimpse at the future of the profession.

From the Inside Flap

A single-source guide to harnessing the power of 3D visualization tools for analysis and representation of landscapes

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. The text focuses on digital modeling methods that can be used to express rich environments using digital tools to develop, composite, and animate scenes.

This full-color book provides coverage of 3D visualization tools for land planning and landscape architecture. The methods and theories in Modeling the Environment present landscape representation around a core set of ideas—scene, object, terrain, environment/atmosphere, time/dynamics, and the composite—that centers representation on human experience. Supported by www.lab.visual-logic.com, a website offering tutorials and forums, the text shows you how to use Autodesk 3ds Max to create dynamic landscape environments while also referring to a range of other tools including Google SketchUp, Autodesk Maya, and AutoCAD Civil 3D. It also demonstrates how to integrate 3D visualization tools into existing workflows, and offers critical coverage of intelligent drawings and representations, giving you a glimpse at the future of the profession. This book:

• Includes sections intended to build upon one another in order to understand the environment as a composite representation of multiple systems interacting

• Shows how to integrate 3D visualization tools into existing workflows, as opposed to offering an entirely new workflow

• Emphasizes modeling, animation, and simulation as both design analysis tools and presentation tools

Modeling the Environment is essential reading for professionals in landscape architecture, urban planning and design, architecture, and related disciplines who are looking to be at the forefront of technology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470902949
• ISBN 13: 9780470902943
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288