Form Z 4 (Paperback, CD-ROM)

INTRODUCTION

Getting Acquainted

WORKSHOP 1: LETTING YOURSELF GO

1: Beginning with 2D: A Complete Session

2: Direct 3D

3: Some Basic Functions

4: Combining Objects in Various Ways: The Booleans

Assignment: A Simple Pavilion<

WORKSHOP 2: BRINGING A SENSE OF SCALE

1: Sizing Up Your World

2: Restraining the Cursor

3: Transcending Objects: Working at Multiple Levels

4: Executing Transformations and Making Copies

5: Editing Elements

6: Insertions: A Convenient Alternative to Booleans

Assignment: An Architectural Block Model

WORKSHOP 3: PERSONALIZING YOUR ENVIRONMENT

1: Your Own Colors and Styles

2: Controlling the Displays

3: Working With Layers

4: Using Your Own Reference Planes

5: Having Different Views

6: Specifying Your Preferences

Assignment: An Item of Furniture

WORKSHOP 4: ENHANCING YOUR MODELING CAPABILITIES

1: Going Round and Up and Down

2: Sweeping Your Way Through

3: Skinning and Lofting Your Forms

4: Cutting Your Sections

5: Moving Over Rugged Terrains

6: The Remaining Derivatives

7: Rounding, Bending, Fillets, and Draft Angles

8: Cultivating Attachments

9: Alignments, Distributions, Extensions, and Placements

Assignment: Site Planning for Urban Design

WORKSHOP 5: ILLUMINATING, TEXTURING, AND RENDERING YOUR WORLD

1: Imaging

2: Lights Galore!

3: Radiosity Based Rendering

4: A Closer Look at Textures

5: Other Object Properties

Assignment: A Table Lamp

WORKSHOP 6: GOING ORGANIC

1: Plain Meshes and Subdivisions

2: Moving, Disturbing, and Deforming Meshes

3: Displacing Meshes

4: Smooth Curves, C-Curves, and C-Meshes

5: Nurbz and Patches

6: Cutting and Gluing Freeform Objects

7: The Metaphysics of Metaformz

Assignment: A Curved Roof Structure for a Stadium

WORKSHOP 7: ENDING WITH MORE

1: Writing in 3D

2: The Power of Symbols

3: Panoramic Views and QuickTime VR

4: Animating Your World

5: Internal and External Communication

APPENDIX: BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE DRAFTING MODULE

INDEX