Created using Autodesk's Sketchbook app.

lrsarchitects.com/towne-storage/

The 50 miles (80km) between San Francisco and San Jose California is known as Silicon Valley, the world's center of high technology, but San Francisco is becoming 'Silicon City', as I'll describe below. This is the Bay Bridge. The Golden Gate Bridge is to the right of this view. No HDR.

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Settings etc.:

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Canon 5D Mark II

Canon 17-40L @24

1-minute exposure @F18 (pushing it but it looks fine at full-res)

1-LEE soft ND grad 0.9 (100x150mm) (2 grads with bright lights creates reflected lights)

Lee foundation kit filter holder with Lee 77mm adapter ring

No polarizer.

ISO 50

Small Slik tripod with Manfrotto pistol grip ball head

RAW file processed with Capture One by Phase One

TIFF file processed with Photoshop

Sturdy hiking boots to keep from falling off the hill

(This is to the left of most shots taken here to get the full 2x3 ratio frame!)

I was literally hanging off the cliff to get this perspective.

It is amazing how many high technology companies are located in Silicon Valley.

Apple, NetFlix, Quora, Cisco and Juniper (the backbone of the internet), Google, YouTube, Facebook, Adobe (Photoshop, PDF files), Intuit, Tango, LSI Logic, Symantic, Nvidia, Hewlet Packard, eBay, PayPal, Yahoo, Palm, Intel (in almost every computer), AMD and Applied Materials (the rest of the chips inside nearly all computers), turntable.fm (crack for the head) vmWare (virtual servers), Appcelerator (a great app dev. framework), Y-Combinator (The birthplace of numerous startups), Mozilla (Firefox browesr), Pandora (Internet radio in Oakland), Sun Microsystems, SmugMug photo website hosting and sharing, LinkedIn (the biggest corporate social networking site),Oracle (#1 database company), monster.com, Bloom Energy, Tesla Motors, Genentech, and many more.

But San Francisco is home to hundreds of high-tech startups and and better known companies such as Flickr, Twitter, SalesForce (cloud computing) Wikimedia (wikipedia), Zynga (80 million users play farmville etc.), UStream, Metacafe, DropBox, RapLeaf, Blurb (photo books), Dolby Labs, Stumbleupon, Digg (THE way to go viral on the internet until Reddit (Also in SF) came along), Craigslist (the biggest want-ad website with local versions around the world), Yelp (recommendations on restaurants and other things, soon worldwide), Autodesk, (the leading computer design software company), Typekit, QuantCast (Web analytics), Twilio, Square(mobile payments), GitHub, Riverbed,Heroku (cloud computing/online customer database systems), Second-life (the biggest online virtual reality game played by over 800,000 people around the world). And let's not forget Wired Magazine....etc...etc..

Genentech, Lucasfilm and Pixar are also within a few miles of where I took this shot.

There is an energetic feel to this place that is hard to describe, but perhaps a view from this spot is the best way to show it in a photograph.

Okay, this really is the last upload of the year. So I hope you have a great holiday season. I have some nice seascapes from my Big Sur summit meetup with Ivan Makarov to start off the new year.

The map shows exactly where this is. It is another place not for the faint of heart!

See my Flickr profile for a link to my newly designed website.

Resources:

Satellite imagery (choose 'National' for a local US region or use your fave website)

www.wrh.noaa.gov/satellite/?wfo=mtr

Tide charting and preditions: (chose your area in US, other countries have similar websites)

tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/tide_predictions.shtml?gid=235

Wave Heights (I choose 'North Pacific from Global')

polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves/main_int.html

Or Here:

www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/shtml/RP1bw.gif

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Now available on the marketplace!

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CROSSVIEW

To view 3D pics cross your eyes focusing between at the pictures until both images overlap one another in the middle.

Per vedere le foto in 3D incrociare (strabuzzare leggermente) gli occhi fino a che le due immagini si sovrappongono formandone una sola centrale.

Drawn by me with Autodesk Sketchbook

This digital drawing of a young man is based on a skull found in Israel which is over 90,000 years old.

One reason why I love paleontology is the stories the fossils tell. For instance, this skull which is known as Skhul 5, was in a layer of sediment older than a layer containing Neanderthal evidence. This means Neanderthals replaced this population of Homo sapiens or lived alongside them.

A triangular portrait of Mia.

Made with iPad and Poly

Rendered using Autodesk Maya and Adobe Photoshop. HiRISE data processed using HiView and gdal.

Data:

NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/USGS

Source: www.uahirise.org/dtm/dtm.php?ID=ESP_034619_1670

torganiel.com

Digital Terrain Mesh with Orthographic Image From Lroc's Narrow Angle Camera

Mesh Constructed in Blender 2.79

Rendered Using 3ds Max (Autodesk)

Just over 8K resolution

Original Data from source : wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc/view_rdr/NAC_DTM_LARMORQ

Courtesy of NASA - ASU - Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Another version of this mural has the dolphins up front replaced with foliage.

SEEN AT:

- Regal Natomas Marketplace 16 - Sacramento, CA (Theater 14; 150) [foliage version]

- Regal Magnolia Place 16 - Coral Springs, FL (Theater 15; 76 seats) [dolphin version]

- Regal Bell Tower 20 - Fort Myers, FL (Theater 8; 204) [large version]

- Regal Bell Tower 20 - Fort Myers, FL (Theater 13; 181) [small version]

- Regal Treasure Coast Mall 16 - Jensen Beach, FL (Theater 3; 82 seats) [foliage version]

- Regal South Beach 18 - Miami Beach, FL (Theater 18; 164 seats) [foliage version]

- Cobb Miami Lakes 17 - Miami Lakes, FL (Theater 6; 180 / 85 seats) [dolphin version]

- Regal Royal Palm Beach 18 - Royal Palm Beach, FL (Theater 17; 118) [dolphin version]

- Regal Sawgrass 23 - Sunrise, FL (Theater 23; 158) [dolphin version]

- Regal Stonecrest @ Piper Glen 22 - Charlotte, NC (Theater 2, 14 or 22) [dolphin version]

- Regal Oaks 24 / Oaks Center - Oaks, PA (Theater 20; 148) [foliage version]

- Regal Hollywood 20 - Greenville, SC (Theater 12; 186) [dolphin version]

- Cinema Cafe @ Greenbrier Mall - Chesapeake, VA (Theater 3) [early version]

- Regal Riverside Plaza 12 / Cinema Cafe 12 - Hampton, VA (Theater 12)

- Regal MacArthur Center 18 - Norfolk, VA (Theaters 11 [145; dolphin] & 15 [158; foliage])

FORMERLY SEEN AT:

- Jupiter 18 - Jupiter, FL [early version]

- Regal Hollywood 20 - Sarasota, FL (Theater 7; 188 seats) [dolphin version]

- Regal Hollywood 20 - Sarasota, FL (Theater 17 [188 / 82 seats])

- Regal Citrus Park 20 - Tampa, FL (Theater 3, 8 or 9) [foliage version]

- Regal University Mall 16 - Tampa, FL

- Regal Hollywood 24 @ North I-85 - Chamblee, GA (Theater 20; 196) [foliage version]

- Regal Lincolnshire 20 & IMAX - Lincolnshire, IL (Theater 7) [foliage version]

- Raleighwood Cinema Grill - Raleigh, NC (Theater 2) [large version]

- Regal Warrington Crossing 22 - Warrington, PA (Theater 2; 283 seats) [foliage version]

✰ This photo was featured on The Epic Global Showcase here: bit.ly/1YPUDzS

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captured on the walls in real-time by Stephanie Crowley. She is working on the summary of my talk (long version here) and some random three-word summaries from others in blue. More examples below.

And here is a new teaser video by Autodesk about this IDEAS brain spa.

An automotive chassis from the mind of the machine.

Here they constrained the computer algorithm to use straight struts between joints. Yet, it looks so organic, like so many of the products of an iterative algorithm (evolution, deep learning, genetic programming, etc).

www.autodesk.com/solutions/generative-design

The newly released Autodesk Inventor 2012 now contains Ray Tracing directly inside the geometry window!

A water treatmet skid for a large retail outlet designed using Autodesk Inventor and shared with Autodesk Revit to use within the Building Information Model

A water treatmet skid for a large retail outlet designed using Autodesk Inventor and shared with Autodesk Revit to use within the Building Information Model

This was originally the AutoCAD LT written by Autodesk Founder John Walker in a short time.

This is a School Building one my colleagues at Autodesk put together using Revit Architecture.

We then re-used the data in Autodesk Inventor to develop the required mechanical\manufacturing products.

The 3D model was created in AutoCAD 2009 and imported and styled in Autodesk Impression 2 in about 30 seconds.

An Autodesk product brochure from the 90s based on a book by James Gleick The New Science of CHAOS

here the full res: img253.imageshack.us/img253/8757/pontepano3wat.jpg

Mamiya RB67Pro

Fuji Provia 100f

90mmf3,8

2 shots

stitched with Autodesk Stitcher Unlimited 2009

the resulting image is equivalent to a 5 x12 film cropped from two 6x7 film.

Red Cup

I finally got round to updating my boys wooden fork lift truck toy in Autodesk Inventor 2012.

These screenshots are taken with the Ray Tracing option turned on.

Autodesk Sketchbook + Apple Pencil

I finally got round to updating my boys wooden fork lift truck toy in Autodesk Inventor 2012.

These screenshots are taken with the Ray Tracing option turned on.

I finally got round to updating my boys wooden fork lift truck toy in Autodesk Inventor 2012.

These screenshots are taken with the Ray Tracing option turned on.

AutoCAD WS Mobile on iPhone 3GS iOS4

encargado del area comercial de productos de manufactura Luis Avila de Autodesk durante la entrevista con 3DCadPortal en Plastimagen 2011

Rendered using Autodesk Maya and Adobe Photoshop.

Spacecraft Mesh: NASA/Chris Meaney

I was recently asked a question about sharing data via Autodesk Inventors BIM Exchange tool. The question was about material consistency from one to the other.

These two screenshots show the model in Inventor with textures and colours and the same thing in Revit when opening the .adsk file into Revit.

As you can see, they both have the same colours and textures applied!