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Hotel reconstruction imagery by Don Lynch, Reyer Corp.

Industrial product design visualization by Brook Stevens Design Associates

Industrial product design visualization by Tim Sutherland, Motorola PCS Product Development

Hotel reconstruction imagery by Don Lynch, Reyer Corp.

Don Lynch discusses about these images: "Over the past 13 years Reyer Corporation has provided engineering design services for private industry as well as US government laboratories, such as Naval Research Lab, National Institute of Standards and Technology and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

We have focused mainly on scientific instruments and use 3D CAD modeling on a daily basis. Just recently we were contracted to do a really exciting project. The US government wanted to explore the possibility of restoring an old hotel while adding a new building to it. Our job was to recreate the hotel and lobby with its fantastic columns and provide a walk-through.

We obtained old black and white photos of the hotel façade and lobby from the local historical society and worked under the direction of an architect for the new building concept. Everything, except for the Mercedes, was modeled in SDRC’s Master Series 3D CAD software and Lightwave3D. The final model was exported to Okino's NuGraf. NuGraf is a package we have been using for several years and for which Okino has provided personal support and updates to us directly. We imported the data via IGES and Lightwave objects, and ended up with a 950,000 polygon count model of the interior and 1,200,000 polygon count of the exterior scene. NuGraf rendered the images in a short time.

The models use about 100 texture maps, 30 light sources for the interior and 6 lights for the exterior and took from 4 to 8 minutes to render on a 1.3Ghz machine depending on the view.

We would like to thank DeEspona Infografica for the fantastic Mercedes model."

Copyrights: Data and image used by permission and Copyright (c) by Reyer Corp.

Industrial product design visualization by Brook Stevens Design Associates

"Brooks Stevens Design is a multi-disciplinary product development firm committed to creating great commercial products for our clients and ourselves. Our capabilities and process include usability research, industrial design, mechanical engineering, prototyping, project management, vendor liason, and interactive design.

Pro/E is the primary engineering modeling and documentation package used at Brooks Stevens. Although it is used in some cases as a conceptual industrial design tool, it's main application is documenting our designs through mechanical engineering and part/assembly development to final production."

Credits: Middle two images, Flow International Corporation (Kent, WA) and Brooks Stevens Design (Grafton, WI), David Roland (designer) and Scott Klos (engineer). Image of Flow International's "Waterjet Machining Center (WMC)" which can be viewed on their WEB site. Right most image: Briggs & Stratton ELS500 Engine cover; Design by Brooks Stevens Design.

Industrial product design visualization by Tim Sutherland, Motorola PCS Product Development

Tim Sutherland of Motorola PCS discusses about these images: "I work in the Industrial Design department at Motorola. My role here is to obtain a preliminary set of internal components from the engineering development group and provide all of the external surfaces of the design. I return a set of external surfaces and thin-walled parts to the engineering group and they add all of the internal geometry (snaps, bosses, etc.). What's shown here is the final design after a year and a half of development.

The model was created in ProE then imported into Okino's NuGraf software for final rendering. The clean conversion of trimmed NURBS via Okino's ProE importer makes it easy to render large production files, complete with all of the internal detail, for otherwise raw NURBS would be far too heavy.

The graphics are mapped on with a technique I use that combines Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop."

Copyrights: Data and image used by permission and Copyright (c) by Motorola PCS..