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Kinetic Facade: Awesome Adaptive Window Shading System

17 Mar

[ By WebUrbanist in Gadgets & Geekery & Technology. ]

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Buildings are forever in tension, being static objects in a dynamic world – light conditions in particular shift predictably yet variably throughout the day, week, season and year, in turn demanding an adaptive response.

dynamic facade shading

Thus the Penumbra system by Tyler Short, “designed to offer a kinetic and mechanical solution to a problem that would otherwise be nearly impossible to solve with static architectural components: providing shading across a building facade for both low evening sun and high afternoon sun conditions.”

adaptive facade interior gears

The constituent parts can shift side to side while in their vertical orientation, then turn on a proverbial dime to form a horizontal shading solution, all creating a way to deflect (and let in) light while maintaining control over views.

kinetic shade facade system

More from the designer: “Our solution was a series of vertical shading louvers, that can independently pivot to maximize solar protection, and when the sun reaches an altitude in which vertical louvers would be ineffective, completely rotate upwards to act as a horizontal shading element and light shelf. All of the mechanical components and gear ratios were fully resolved, and the result is a hand or computer-operated system that creates a beautiful undulating form across the facade.”

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Skin Shading Tutorial Part 2

30 Aug

IMVU Skin Tutorial part 2. 🙂 And Yes It ends weird but I had to shorten the video 😛
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Grad filters are great tools for enhancing scenes. Color can change mood and variations such as diffusion and masking can potentially alter the meaning of a shot. This three-second scene is shown in its original colors first, followed by six variations that were generated using a custom Action in Photoshop Extended, the version of Photoshop that works on motion files. The Action lets you control the spread of the grad filter effect, then allows you to tune color, diffusion, contrast, fog and other qualities interactively for custom results. Look carefully, the second grad effect has distant clouds that are hand-painted onto the grad layer, and the last variation has manually eliminated the grad effect from the shoreline subject. Why do a grad filter effect in post-production processes? Control. If you shoot a scene using a glass or polycarbonate grad filter, you run into the “law of the haircut.” Meaning that you’re stuck with it. The Action allows you to customize the grad filtered area quickly and easily including hand-retouching like this in mere seconds. More about this and a bunch of other HDSLR topics in the interactive eBook. The Photoshop Extended iNovaFX Action is included inside the eBook “HDSLR the billion things you need…” eBook. More about this can be found by poking around at digitalsecrets.net and hdslrreview.com.
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