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January 31, 2012. Beaverton, Oregon: e-on software the leader in 3D sky, light and nature technologies, today announced the immediate availability of LumenRT 2 Review, the second generation of the company’s revolutionary product for the interactive visualization of architectural projects with full physical lighting.

The product, currently compatible with SketchUp, is being ported to other platforms. To support this major release, e-on software also publishes a free trial version of LumenRT 2 for Macintosh and Windows, immediately available for download from try.lumenrt.com.

LumenRT 2

E-on software invites all architects and designers to watch the LumenRT 2 Review presentation video, showcasing the true real-time power of LumenRT 2. This video, entirely rendered with LumenRT 2 is visible on the company’s YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/eonsoftware.

I don’t know if you’re into cool pop art and t-shirts printing (if you’re not you’re uncool and old fashioned – not that there’s anything wrong with that), but if you are, I have a special treat for you today.

This next resource I’ve found provides you with full services from design – printing – delivering and the cool part about it is that they’re really affordable. Of course you don’t have to take my word for it, you can try it for yourself. What I loved about it from the very beginning is that it geo-detected my location. It knew I was in Romania and they had this cute message up top: “Yes, we deliver to Romania” , really liked that.

But enough about that. StreetShirts is the UK’s no. 1 for t-shirt printing and they have plenty of designs to choose from. Here are just a few:

So here’s the deal: If you are a reputable web designer, you definitely use vectors to create your art, and if you ever heard about GO Media, then you know this guys are passionate and deliver awesome vectors, brushes, patterns and all kind of cool stuff, pre-made and pre-coloured.

The Vector Set 19 is no exception, and you will find inside Chain link, MMA Apparel Essentials, Tribal, Patriot, Fighters, Fists & Fight Gear, and Medieval vectors, all at a special launch price of $34.99 discount from the original $69.99.

Just wanted to recommend this cool resource, and hope you enjoy it.

You can visit their official website HERE and get the special price.

Our friend Si-Yeon, aka DELICIOUS STORM, aka “think tank” of the Allied Operations asked me to review his edition book called “Interview With Delicious Storm” , and of course I was anxious to do that, because I know this guy to be very creative and fun. You might have seen some of Allied Operations work on archtopia.com,  and the thinking process involved in the creation act. It’s anything but ordinary, and so is this “interview”.

This book actually made my day when I received it in mail this Wednesday. It’s not only the colors (eye candies) and the short introduction made by the author , but the interview itself was created in a manner that could make me forget for a moment that I’m an adult. As you can see in the image above, the book was printed in 25 different color background, and as we are already accustomed from allied operations the intention was to make the each reader think different.

a book by Allan Brito

Blender 3D: Architecture, Buildings, and Scenery will be featured here at Archtopia for a while, and it describes the power of Blender 3D in Architectural Visualizations. You will see how to use the final models to create simpler scenes for use in 3D games, where real-time rendering is necessary. You will also see how to use them to create the sets for animated movies.

About Blender 3D

Blender 3D is a open-source 3D graphics suite, that is capable of modeling, rendering and animating 3D environments, and one of the best parts about it, is that you can download it for free at: http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/. Another cool thing about it is that the installed program it’s only 10 MB, and not only that,
but it can run on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX.