For the first time in human history, more than 50% of the world's population lives in urban regions. Contemporary cities are environmentally, socially, and economically unsustainable. The focus of the eCAADe 2010 conference is that of tools, methods, and theories that support the new design of new cities and the transformation of existing cities.
The ACADIA 2010 conference will focus on the influence of computing and its impact on the changing nature of information in architectural education, research, and practice. With the ever-increasing integration of information technologies in the design laboratory, the discipline of architecture has changed profoundly in recent years. The Cooper Union will host this years conference in New York
3Dsmax Script: Tyson Ibele's Building Generator Version 0.45 released for parametric generation of buildings objects based on a list of user-controlled settings for city simulation.
The process consists of steps to place an artificial chrome sphere light probe into an artificial virtual sky+landscape scene. The Cinema 4D Advanced Render generated an artificial spherical HDRI which was then cropped and processed into a panoramic lat/long hdri. Then the panoramic hdri was introduced back into C4D and setup using a simple scene and sky dome object as the only source of light. The result is as follows:
