I am always appreciative of your posted work, as you have such a sense of composition and drama, supplemented with the absolute perfect lighting.
Please keep up the great work, and keep posting it for us to enjoy and learn.

lol just noticed my revised signature..... I've been hacked lol

I know, I know, it's Apple, it will spark some discussion.
Thought the renderings were worth posting though.http://www.wired.com/design/2013/11/a-glimpse-into-apples-crazy-new-spaceship-headquarters/#slideid-312121

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Really fun. I think the balloons would work if they had more transparency. They add a child like feel to the room, but seem to "heavy" without that balloon like thinness.
I'm being picky thugh as this is really great work.

I thought I would post this as "Another Reason I Should Learn Blender"
This gent has developed a 3D printer using the sound card of the computer operating lasers to harden resin. The model needs to be created in blender, and uses an add on software he has developed. Oh and did I mention he plans to market it for around $100. Or you can build it yourself, because he will be posting plans.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/3-d-printer-by-sask-man-gets-record-crowdsourced-cash-1.2417416

As a quick reference, if you zoom in on the axis lines, you will notice that the Red and Green lines are dotted on one side of the vertical axes, and solid on the other.
The solid green is north
The dotted green is south
Solid red line is east
Dotted red line is west

Grew up on stories of the Hood / Bismark battle John, so it's really great to see this incredible piece. I knew you weren't just another pretty face!
Cheers

Class Act as is to be expected from you Richard. Always inspiring to see your work.
Cheers.

Like Pete, I had a feeling this would happen. A really good sense of where Trimble is heading, by the quality folks they are adding.
Congratulations..... No more jet lag at basecamp...

Interesting Mike.
We've been doing some interesting work with passive recently, and have had the chance to run simulations through the IES software. Being able to manipulate input data, it has been very enlightening to see the things that make the most difference, and it seems the devil is in the details. One of the ways you can change efficiency in a very big way is air tightness. Another is thermal bridging. But by far, in my opinion , sitting in the most important category is mass, and passive air movement (Kris has addressed the air movement nicely in his example) Another thing is if you have the ability to isolate the solar gain space. This can give a lot of comfort control.
In one project we are doing, a small commercial building, we are at the point that we can almost totally replace the air conditioning cooling cycles through a passive means. In this case, the mass is substantial enough to temper the heat gain so that it only starts to change the comfort level to unpleasant at the end of the business day, so we can then cool the building by tempering the mass at night, when the building is unoccupied, and bring it back to a new cycle beginning the next business day.
We are still tinkering, so we feel things will only get better.

200,231, that's a lot of baseball caps
Congratulation to the whole SketchUcation team. You are a real class act.

Also, if your thinking of rendering you could take the approach the legendary Silver_Shadow used in "The River Runs Through it". http://www.sketchupartists.org/tutorials/sketchup-and-advanced-modeling/the-river-runs-through-it/
If not' like me you'll pick up a hell of a lot of modeling technique from this.

Also another interesting tutorial by nomeradona on his blog.
Not quite perhaps what you want but some usefulhttp://sketchupvrayresources.blogspot.ca/2011/08/making-of-flowing-tap-water.html knowledge.

I know Earthmover did a fountain earlier, here is a link to it. Hope it helps. http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=285320#p285320

I guess the Subject says it all.

(3dawards.cgarchitect.com)

As always, great work.

Sorry for my laxness on the Thread. Just a time of a lot of output.
But I came across this. At first I thought it was just sculptures, and liked it any way. But it's relationship to the landscape had me thinking of a good friends thoughts on prairies versus mountains. He would say." I'm not fond of the mountains, everything is already done. But if you put a shape on the prairie, its effect is profound"
http://www.patkau.ca/
Patkau Architects designed and built the Winnipeg Skating Shelters in response to a competition, and to Canada’s impossible cold, but also to an unprecedented setting generated by the anomaly whereby a river that flows through the city of Winnipeg froze when the water level rose much higher than normal, producing an 'entropic' landscape (as Robert Smithson might put it), or a new form of urban wilderness. Faced with this situation – and with the task of installing shelters for chilly skaters

Have any of you had any experience with developing models that work within the IES VE software.
I'm trying to adapt the model, but have had no luck so far getting a complete verification of the rooms.
We have virtually given up on the thick wall technique,as it has produced no results.
In the thin wall technique, I have made all the volumes solids, verified their integrity, and exploded and erased one of the walls between adjacent rooms that were originally created to verify the volumes.

I'm giving it a try here, while the fellow I'm working with is trying the IES Forums.
Any advice would be appreciated.

But before you start, wrap your hands around the real thing and pound er back. It will make modeling a lot more fun.

I guess if you have bad teeth, the world focuses on that.