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Rhinoceros 5 - design, model, present, analyze, realize...

Rhino can create, edit, analyze, document, render, animate, and translate NURBS* curves, surfaces, and solids and polygon meshes. There are no limits on precision, complexity, degree, or size. Special features include:

Uninhibited free-form 3-D modeling tools like those found only in products costing 20 to 50 times more. Model any shape you can imagine.

Accuracy needed to design, prototype, engineer, analyze, and manufacture anything from an airplane to jewelry.

Compatibility with all your other design, drafting, CAM, engineering, analysis, rendering, animation, and illustration software.

Read and repair extremely challenging IGES files.

Accessible. So easy to learn and use that you can focus on design and visualization without being distracted by the software.

Fast, even on an ordinary laptop computer. No special hardware is needed.

Affordable. Ordinary hardware. Short learning. Priced like other Windows software. No maintenance fees.

There are more than 25 new commands and major enhancements for working with large teams to organize, manage, and administer massive projects and for organizing and working on huge files, including:

• 64-bit Rhino allows working with huge files without running out of memory.
• New lightweight extrusion objects save significant memory and improve display speed.
• Double-precision meshes accurately represent and display ground forms such as the 3-D topography of a large city.
• Display speed is improved by taking advantage of faster graphic cards.
• Major enhancement to Layer, Block, and Worksessionmanagement.

System Requirements

• Intel or AMD uni processor. Multi processor is recommended.
• 200 MB disk space.
• CD/DVD drive.
• 2GB RAM. 4 GB or more is recommended.
• OpenGL graphic card recommended.
• IntelliMouse recommended.
• 3-D digitizer optional.
• 3-D printer optional
• 32-bit & 64-bit Windows.
• Virtualization systems such as VMWare and Parallels are not recommended.

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Partial User List

ABB
Airbus Industries
Aircabin GmbH
AMD
Arup

BAE Systems
BASF
Black & Decker
BMW AG
Boieng
Bombardier
Brown Shoe Company

Cabo Yachts
CALTRANS
Cessna Aircraft
CIA
Corning

Daimler Chrysler
Dassault Falcon Jet
Dauphin
Delta Marine
Danone
Designworks/BMW

Electrolux
Eric Owen Moss Architects
Ewing Design Group

Fiat
Fibrojet, Inc.
FILA
Fisher-Price, Inc.
Ford
FOX/Paramount
Frank O. Gehry & Assoc.

GE Aviation
GE Lighting
GE Plastics
General Dynamics
General Motors
Geo-SPatial Survey SolutionsGuggenheim Museum

Hewlett-Packard
Hitachi
Honeywell
Honda
Hyundai

IDEA Product-Design
Incognito
Intel

Janaki Marine
John Deere
Juniper Systems

K2 Corp.
Kaiserwerft
Kaman Aerospace Corp.
Kawasaki
Kimberly-Clark

Leatherman Tool Group
LEGO
Lockheed Martin
Loewe AG

Mercedes-AMG
Michael Peters Yacht Design
Microsoft Corp.
Montblanc
Motorola

NEC Design
Nestle Brands
Nike
Nintendo
Nokia
North Sails Windsurfing
Northrop Grumman
Nusa Dua Boatworks

Oakley, Inc.
Osram
Otto Christ AG

Panasonic
Pininfarina Studi e Ricerche
Pioneer
Porsche
Procter & Gamble
Pursuit Boats

Raytheon
Recaro Aircraft Seating
Rockwell
Rocky Mountain Bicycles
Royal Scandinavia A/S

Saab
Samsonite
Samsung Electronics
Schwan Stabilo
Sea Pro
Sea Ray
Sharp
Siemens
Swarovski

Teague Associates, Inc.
TEAMS Design
Texas Instrument
Textron Automotive
Textron Turbine Engine
Tiara Yacths
Toyota
TRW Automotive

US Army Research Lab
United Technologies
UPS Automation Lab
US Air Force

Volkswagen AG
Viking Range Corp.

Walt Disney Imagineering
Warwick Yacht Design Ltd.
Wolverine World Wide

Yamana Motor Co., Ltd.
Yorkville Sound

Zapf Creation AG
Zenith International SA
ZURA Sports, Inc.

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Flamingo nXt

Next generation rendering technology
Flamingo nXt was developed for designers. You don't need to be a CG professional to quickly present your Rhino model in the best light.

Results in a few clicks and a few minutes
In Rhino, just click Render to try the nXt defaults, or spend a few minutes to select a lighting scenario and add some materials before you click Render.

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Easy to Use
With nXt you don't need to be a professional renderer to get realistic results quickly. You provide materials and lighting and press the Render button. nXt provides the simulation. Unlike many rendering products, there are very few settings to worry about or understand.

Physically-Based
nXt produces realistic results by simulating light transport in your model. Indirect lighting as well as complex reflection and refraction can be easily incorporated into the simulation. Interior and exterior daylight simulations, HDR image-based lighting, and many other techniques are all handled easily, with minimal configuration requirements.

Fast
nXt uses efficient, modern ray-casting technology to produce results as quickly as possible. All processor cores are automatically utilized in parallel. Images are continually refined and improved over time.

Loaded with Extras
Image Editor with support for multiple lighting channels.
3D Plant Editor.
Render Farm support.
Content libraries (plants, materials, HDRi).
Pre-textured mesh support.
Support for 3rd party texture sets.

Advanced Lighting

• Default lighting presets for quick setups of common scenes

                Studio Lighting
                Exterior Daylight
                Interior Daylight
                Artificial Lighting

• Advance use of high dynamic range images for scene lighting.
• Free library of high Quality HDRI images for lighting.
• Soft shadows calculated automatically.
• Indirect lighting calculated enhancing depth in renderings.
• Lighting Channels allow you to edit light strength realtime without the need to re-render the scene.
• Automated daylight calculation based on lighting presets.

Sophisticated Materials

• Material templates for common materials
• Blurry reflections, control over Fresnel effects and reflection styles
• Accurate Transparency
• New Bump Mapping
• Normal Maps
• True Displacement Mapping
• Materials stored in model for easy transfer to others
• Drag and Drop material assignment

Advanced Options

• Path tracing
• Progressive render continues to improve effects each pass
• Less memory needed for models with many of the same block
• Alpha channel support for compositing in backgrounds or objects
• Tone mapping for brighter images
• Burn control - White point adjustment
• Post-processing - no re-rendering required

               Depth of Field
               Exposure
                Vignette
                Glare
                Haze
                Glow
                Wires on/off
                Text on/off
Adjust lighting channels

• Fractal tree generator
• Background rendering option allows modeling while rendering

RenderFarm (Network Rendering)

• Set multiple computers to rendering on image
• Distribute render to other computers while working

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