Activity – Ryland Fox

Ryland Fox replied to the topic Which Photoshop for Bootcamp? in the forum TECHNOLOGY 15 years, 8 months ago

Rhino will be available for Mac soon too.
Ryland Fox posted an update in the group Design Technology 15 years, 8 months ago

I thought I would post a few Grasshopper files that I made to help out in the site engineering department. They basically interpolate contours a couple of different ways.

The first one works on contour lines and the second on elevation points. I made a third for roads but I am not sure about it…[Read more]
Ryland Fox posted an update in the group 3ds max + landscape architecture 15 years, 8 months ago

Ok, I will start a group, because there are a bunch of software/plugins that I use and I want to see if others in landscape use them at all.

But, in terms of the conversation. BIM software will be the used in every office in the future. It will be as ubiquitous as autocad is now. This will happen because clients will demand it. The GSA is already…[Read more]
Ryland Fox posted an update in the group 3ds max + landscape architecture 15 years, 8 months ago

The real power of 3d software as a design tool comes with the use of BIM and parametric software. Personally I am looking at the use of Digital Project and software developed by Gehry Technologies from the engineering software Catia.

It is good because design and landscape are all about relationships, whether they be spatial or connection. DP…[Read more]
Ryland Fox posted an update in the group 3ds max + landscape architecture 15 years, 8 months ago

These are rendered images? Do they have to be our own? Or can they just be really good renderings we find?
Ryland Fox posted an update in the group Digital assets and resources 15 years, 8 months ago

Personally, I would recommend Rhino 4.0. It is an extremely easy to learn platform and combines 2D and 3D design quite well. Plus there are really good render engine plugins like Vray.

Rhino is also very good at importing and exporting a wide variety of different file types from Autocad to Digital Projects to Maya. I don’t know the exact pricing…[Read more]
Ryland Fox posted an update in the group 3ds max + landscape architecture 15 years, 9 months ago

Thanks for that book, that is great.
Ryland Fox posted an update in the group 3ds max + landscape architecture 15 years, 9 months ago

This is also a really good tutorial (in four steps) pretty complicated when it gets to the post processing stuff though.
http://en.9jcg.com/comm_pages/blog_content-art-129.htm
Ryland Fox posted an update in the group 3ds max + landscape architecture 15 years, 9 months ago

David Fano is really good, he worked (works?) at SHoP architects in NY and has started a consulting company that show firms how to implement digital technology.

Plus he is very active on the site so you can ask him questions or request he do a tutorial on something.
Ryland Fox posted an update in the group 3ds max + landscape architecture 15 years, 9 months ago

David Fano at http://www.designreform.net has some excellent 3DS tutorials. His are focused on 3DS as a design tool and not visualisation.

He also has good grasshopper, rhino, and revit tutorials.
Ryland Fox wrote a new post, Rendering Tutorial – Bump Maps 15 years, 9 months ago

Bump maps are the next step in giving a texture some life.

Bump maps adjust the image but don’t actually change geometry, giving the texture the appearance of having depth.

Like transparency maps, bump m […]
Ryland Fox replied to the topic Portfolio in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 15 years, 9 months ago

Make sure to put in process, not just outcome.
Ryland Fox replied to the topic Resources to find Federal, State, and Local Government Jobs? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 15 years, 10 months ago

federal government job site, they advertise LA jobs on there
http://www.usajobs.gov/
Ryland Fox replied to the topic Creating "Cut-outs" of People, Vegetation, Cars, etc. in the forum TECHNOLOGY 15 years, 10 months ago

We did that at the last firm I worked at, it was pretty good once you had the library all prepared.
Ryland Fox replied to the topic Which version of Photoshop to buy in the forum TECHNOLOGY 15 years, 10 months ago

CS4 is out so just go with that.
Ryland Fox replied to the topic Landscape Architecture Critic in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 15 years, 10 months ago

When I think about it there doesn’t really seem like there is much to critique.

Historically it seems like the times when there is the most discussion is when people are doing something new or controversial i.e. Kiley/Eckbo/ Rose, Martha Schwartz and even into Peter Walker and Hargreaves in the early years.

But what is new or controversial now?…[Read more]
Ryland Fox posted an update in the group Graphics 15 years, 10 months ago

I like Copic Markers
Ryland Fox replied to the topic Essential Reads in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 15 years, 10 months ago

Kostas Terzidis –

Expressive Form – A Conceptual Approach to Computational Design
Algorithmic Architecture
Ryland Fox replied to the topic in need of examples/precedents of "green" bridges in the forum SUSTAINABILITY & DESIGN 15 years, 11 months ago

I knew it was somewhere around there. I just remember the gold and velvet model
Ryland Fox replied to the topic in need of examples/precedents of "green" bridges in the forum SUSTAINABILITY & DESIGN 15 years, 11 months ago

The one West8 proposed in China is pretty good. I couldn’t find it on the internet but it is in their book Mosaics
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