Client: Chaos
Outlet: Architectural Record
Last fall, nearly 12,000 building technologists, architects, engineers, manufacturers, and related professionals descended on downtown San Diego for Autodesk University, the annual gathering organized by the eponymous developer of “design and make” technology.
Among the exciting news items revealed: Autodesk has become an official partner of the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and will undertake efforts to help Los Angeles host the summer spectacle by revitalizing infrastructure and upgrading venues without the need to build new ones. The three-day-long conference also had plenty to offer by way of workshops demonstrating new software and highly choreographed keynotes by industry leaders, with an expo floor, to boot.
Following are the tools, presentations, and projects that caught RECORD’s eye at this year’s edition.
Envision
Chaos, maker of the V-Ray engine and real-time virtual reality renderer Enscape, debuted Envision at Autodesk University. This tool gives architectural-visualization specialists the ability to import textured models and quickly populate them with passing cars, walking and seated people, and procedurally generated flora, from an extensive integrated library. The software produces scenes that help architects relate narratives and offer clients the ability to better envision virtual spaces. Also worth noting: V-Ray 7’s new Gaussian Splat feature, which easily renders large swaths of context, urban and rural, without the burdensome amount of processing power required by point-cloud models.
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Read more at: Architectural Record