I’m in Denmark, attending the BiLT conference. (Revit, BIM, other related stuff) I am leading one session, called “Planting Seeds”. It’s about the Planting category in Revit and the seeds part implies that I am presenting exploratory work that will continue to grow and hopefully stimulate others to build on my ideas. In the course of my preparations, I opened up some of my early Revit work. I showed some of the blog-related stuff a couple of weeks ago. This one is focused on my day job at GAJ Architects, Dubai.
The first version of Revit I ever had was 7.0 so I spend quite some time using the Accurender version of raytracing before Mental Ray was introduced with Revit 2009. (We also got the swept blend, colour fills in Sections, sloping pads, shape editing floors … heady days) Accurender had very interesting Planting objects. They looked a bit wierd in shaded views, but they rendered as genuine 3d objects. If you look carfully at the palm trees in the image above you will…