Description- The workshop will serve as an introduction to rendering
with V-Ray for Rhino 4. Topics covered will include configuring
options/settings, lighting, basic materials and setting up of exterior
scenes. Emphasis will be placed on revealing the basic fundamentals
of the process of setting up renderings, to ensure successful results
while rendering with V-Ray for Rhino.
The Session 2 workshop (being held on Thursday, November 11) will
cover detailed material creation, texturing, how to set up of interior
scenes, and post production using Adobe Photoshop.

Location
Room HHN 308
Date + Time
Thursday, November 4, 7-9PM
Requirements
Participants are required to bring a laptop with Rhino4(SR8) and
V-Ray for Rhino Plug-In (v.01.05.29)

click here to download workshop content

link to download the latest Rendering Updates from McNeel

link to download trial of vray for rhino

Untitled , 2003

by artist Tara Donovan

Excerpt from Syllabus:

Established in 1974, Dia Art Foundation is internationally recognized as one of the world’s most influential contemporary art institutions. The name “Dia,” taken from the Greek word meaning “through,” was chosen to suggest the institution’s role in enabling visionary artistic projects that might not otherwise be realized because of their scale or ambition. Dia’s founders, Heiner Friedrich and Philippa de Menil, wished to extend the boundaries of the traditional museum to respond to the needs of the generation of artists whose work matured and became prominent during the 1960s and 1970s. Ever since, Dia’s mission has been to commission, support, and present site-specific long-term installations and single-artists exhibitions to the public. The original collection was assembled largely during the 1970s and early 1980s by Dia’s founders, Philippa de Menil and Heiner Friedrich, with Helen Winkler. It included works by Joseph Beuys, John Chamberlain, Walter De Maria, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Cy Twombly, and Andy Warhol among others. With the founding of Dia:Beacon the collection was augmented in the 1990s with works from artists of the same generation of the original collections. New acquisitions and commissions included works from Louise Bourgeois, Michael Heizer, Robert Irwin, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra, and Robert Smithson among others. Dia’s Commitment to promoting art that extends beyond a traditional exhibition framework lead to the commissioning and acquisition of large scale environmental works in the western United States, New York City, and Long Island including works such as Smithson’s Spiral Jetty. Architecturally, Dia pioneered the conversion of industrial buildings for the installation of contemporary art—a practice and aesthetic now widely adopted by museums and galleries internationally. Dia Beacon is located in a former printing plant built in 1929 by Nabisco (National Biscuit Company). With 240,000 square feet of long span exhibition space, and 34,000 square feet of sky lights the museum is sited on thirty-one acres on the banks of the Hudson River, and is adjacent to ninety acres of riverfront parkland. The renovation of Dia:Beacon was commissioned with American artist Robert Irwin and the architects OpenOffice. Dia:Beacon’s expansive spaces are uniquely suited to the needs of large-scale installations, paintings, and sculptures. In keeping with Dia’s history of single-artist, site-related presentations, each gallery were designed specifically for the art it contains.

The proposed museum for this semester, Dia Red Hook, extends Dia’s collection and mission to established contemporary artists whose visionary projects move beyond a traditional exhibition framework, and whose artistic works are an evolution in line with Dia’s founding collection. Each of the selected artists — Roxy Paine, Tara Donovan, El Anatsui, Tim Hawkinson, Doh-Ho-Suh, Martin Puyear, Anish Kapoor — produces work that is configured for the specific conditions of the environment in which it is installed. Drawing out relationships between artistic artifice, nature, and architecture; the works of the selected artists as with Dia’s current collection can be considered in light of Rosalind Krauss’ article “Sculpture in the Expanded Field”. Krauss summarized the development of American Sculpture in the 60’s and 70’s as following two developments that could be referred to as ‘through’ conditions: architecture/ not-architecture, and landscape/not-landscape. The two developments referred to the expansion of the “field” of sculpture practice, in the first instance, through the “field” of architecture leading to the development of the installation, and the latter embraced a broader nature/humanity space evolving into the form of land art. The program for Dia Red Hook, is to provide an environment for the public to engage with the work of the selected artists in consideration of the artists intent, and in consideration of the mission of the Dia Art Foundation.

Resources:

Course Syllabus

Description: Grasshopper Level II workshop will focus on managing difference within the organization of a definition.   Participants will be exposed to intermediate level workflows and design strategies for parametric modeling, focusing on how to generate and control difference in a serial array of primitive units.  Emphasis will also be placed on data flow, visualization, and analysis techniques to maximize productivity on tasks commonly confronted in the design process.

Location: Room HHN 308

Date + Time: 2011.02.17 (7-9PM)

Requirements: Participants are required to bring a laptop with Rhino3D (SR8) and Grasshopper 1.0 (v0.6.0059) preinstalled.

Download workshop files here: GH_Level_II

Description: Grasshopper Level I will serve as an introduction to the parametric plugin Grasshopper for Rhino3D. Participants will be exposed to beginner/intermediate level workflows and design strategies for parametric modeling. Emphasis will be placed on data flow, visualization, and analysis techniques that will provide a robust foundation for future research and development.
Location:
Room HHN 308
Date + Time:
2011.02.03 (7-9PM)
Requirements:
Participants are required to bring a laptop with Rhino3D (SR8)

and Grasshopper 1.0 (v0.6.0059)  or newer version preinstalled.

Grasshopper Level 1 workshop files

Rhino3d download:

http://download.rhino3d.com/eval/?p=25

Grasshopper links:

• Grasshopper | Dot NET SDK
• Grasshopper | Forum
• Grasshopper | MAIN
• Grasshopper | Scripting Tutorials
• LIFT | Grasshopper Primer

Description- Topics covered will include:

Detailed material creation for plastics, metal, ceramics and glass

Using texturing to create wood and stone

How to set up interior scenes under different lighting conditions

Vector line overlays for more stylized renderings

Post production using Adobe Photoshop.

Location Room HHN 308 Date + Time Monday, November 15, 7-9PM Requirements

Participants are required to bring a laptop with Rhino4(SR8) and V-Ray for Rhino Plug-In (v.01.05.29)

Digital Futures Workshop Series

Pratt Institute

School of Undergraduate Architecture

V-Ray Rendering in Rhino 4

Location- HHN 308

Date + Time- 2010.04.03, 12:00-3:00pm

Requirements- Participants are required to bring a laptop with the following software installed:

Rhino 4.0 (SR7) & V-Ray for Rhino Plug-In (v.01.05.29), Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3

Description- The workshop will serve as an introduction to rendering with the V-Ray rendering plug-in for Rhino 4.  Participants will be introduced to the concepts and techniques required to effectively set up, develop, and successfully render geometry in Rhino 4.  Topics covered will include modeling, lighting, configuring options/settings, and post processing.  Emphasis will be placed on developing quick, reliable results while rendering with V-Ray in Rhino 4.

Workshop Outline:

User Interface, Navigation

-loading plug-in

-accessing the V-Ray toolbar

-Material Editor

-Settings

-V-Ray Frame Buffer (VFB)

Lighting

-Basic Lighting Concepts: Direct and Indirect Lighting (Global Illumination or GI)

-Types of Light Objects in Rhino and how to add them to a scene

-Adjusting Light Properties and Physical Camera Properties

Materials

-Understanding the Material Editor

-Adjusting Color and Transparency

-Adding /adjusting reflectivity

Rendering Settings

-Overview, speed versus quality

-Settings, Output, Gamma Correction, and VFB channels

-Primary Rendering Engine: Irradiance Mapping, important settings and guidelines

-Secondary Rendering Engine: Light Cache, important settings and guidelines

-Saving Images and Channels

Post Processing

-Adjusting rendered images in Photoshop, Color Correction

-Overlaying vector drawings from Rhino on top of a rendered image using Illustrator.

Digital Futures Workshop Series

Pratt Institute

School of Undergraduate Architecture

Rhino Workshop Level II

Location- HHS 416

Date + Time- 2010.02.17, 7-10pm

Requirements- Participants are required to bring a laptop with Rhino 4.0 (SR7) installed and an extension cord.

Description- This workshop will serve as an intermediate lesson in developing surfaces in Rhino 4.  Participants will be exposed to differing approaches to generating surfaces with a focus on the particulars of continuity and curvature.  Topics covered will include lofting, sweeping, patching, creasing, and blending with in-depth tutorials on digital topography creation/manipulation and generating layouts for a laser cut site model.  Emphasis will be placed on creating a procedural understanding of generating and managing surfaces and polysurfaces in Rhino.

Workshop Outline:

Curves and Curvature

-quantifying continuity: Positional, Tangent, Curvature

-strategies to blend curves and surfaces

-analyzing curvature in 2d, 3d

-Workshop Tutorial 1: Periodic Table of Form,

adapted from article by Gray Holland of Alchemy Labs

Generating Site Topography

-Importing/Tracing a site drawing

-Extracting Loft Curves to generate Surface

-Generate the surface, resolving issues/inconsistencies

-Adding Detail: Roads, Existing Buildings, Landscape Elements

-Workshop Tutorial #2: Creating the digital site model

Generating Content from a Digital Site Model

-Generating a site drawing, the contour command

-Creating a laser file for a site model.

-Workshop Tutorial #3: Creating Site drawings and laser files from a digital site model

Workshop Files:

Download: Rhino Workshop Level 2 files.zip

Digital Futures Workshop Series

Pratt Institute

School of Undergraduate Architecture

Rhino Workshop Level I

Location- HHN 308

Date + Time- 2010.02.04, 7-10pm

Requirements- Participants are required to bring a laptop with Rhino 4.0 (SR7) installed: download demo

Description- The workshop will serve as an introduction to Rhino 4.  Participants will be introduced to the most elementary concepts and techniques needed to develop drawings and models in Rhino 4.  Topics covered will include interface, navigation, settings and configurations, 2d/3d curve geometry, surfaces, and solids.  Emphasis will be placed on creating a procedural understanding of the methods of generating content in Rhino 4.

Workshop Outline:

User Interface, Navigation, Settings, Standards

-interface

-mouse navigation/hotkeys

-layers/properties

-options settings (units, command aliases, line display settings, etc.)

-views and the construction plane

Creating Curve Geometry

-command prompt, coordinate input methods

-Reference Geometry: point, textdot, text

-Primitive Curves: line, polyline, rectangle, polygon, circle, arc, ellipse

-freeform curves:  curve, interpolated curve

-Curve modifiers: trim, split, intersect, divide, explode, join, fillet, chamfer, curve boolean, hatch

-Transformations: move, rotate (2d/3d), scale (3d/2d/1d), copy, array, array polar, mirror, group

-Workshop Tutorial #1: developing curve geometry in plan

Creating Surfaces and Solids

-Primitives: plane, box, cylinder, cone, sphere, torus, 4 point surface

-Surfaces Derived from Curves: extrude, revolve, loft, sweep1, sweep2, pipe

-Curves on Surfaces: Intersect, project, extracting Isocurve

-Surface/Solid Modifiers: trim, split, boolean union, boolean subtraction, boolean intersection

-Workshop Tutorial #2: developing 3d models from plan, section, elevation

Other Useful Tools

-generating high resolution screen captures

-generating 2d drawings from 3d views

-exporting to DWG, AI

-printing

Downloads:

rhino workshop level 1 tutorial files