WEEK THREE

LECTURE

What is a vector image?
-Geometrical pdf primitives such as points, lines, curves, shapes/polygons which are based on mathmatical expressions.
-It has an origin and a direction which detects the nature of its movement. 

What is a raster image?

A raster image, also called a bitmap, is a way to represent digital images. The raster image takes a wide variety of formats, including the familiar .gif, .jpg, and .bmp. A raster image represents an image in a series of bits of information which translate into pixels on the screen. These pixels form points of color which create an overall finished image.

What is a diagram?

Two dimensional geometric symbolic representation of information according to some visualisation technique. 

What matters most in high quality rendering? - http://vimeo.com/5407991

Lighting, rendering, textures and layering.

What is a digital rendering?

A digital image is a numeric representation (normally binary) of a two-dimensional image. Depending on whether the image resolution is fixed, it may be of vector or raster type.

What is drawn rendering?

Drawn Rendering is the process of shading, creating and texturing of an image.

What is a pass? - http://vimeo.com/8200251

It is the world broken down into layers, light and shadows; strongly evident in Second Life.

Who is Cameron Sinclair? - http://archvirtual.com/?p=2652

The co-founder and ‘chief eternal optimist’ (CEO) for Architecture for Humanity, a charitable organization which seeks architectural solutions to humanitarian crisis and brings professional design services to communities in need.

Who is Toyo Ito?

A Japanese architect knowNn for creating conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to simultaneously express the physical and virtual worlds. He is a leading exponent of architecture that addresses the contemporary notion of a “simulated” city, and has been called “one of the world’s most innovative and influential architects.”

What is Mediatheque?
Sendai Mediatheque is a library in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. It was designed by Toyo Ito in 1995 and completed in 2001. The structure of the Sendai Mediatheque is composed of three main elements: tubes, plates and ski

JOURNALS

AI: Architecture and Ideas

NZ home and entertaining
Threshold

Link

BIG - http://www.ted.com/talks/bjarke_ingels_hedonistic_sustainability.html

Wikitecture - http://studiowikitecture.wordpress.com)
http://www.archdaily.com/
http://www.designboom.com/eng/
http://www.arcspace.com/index.html

Reference - Wikipedia