V-Ray is an incredibly powerful renderer — but it’s also remarkably easy to use. The number-one* 3D renderer used in architectural visualization is battle-tested and industry-proven, used daily to ...

Windows 8 and Microsoft's tablet PCs are not released yet, of course, but I included WinRT because it is likely to gain a significant market share before long (polls ...

In an era of great marketing efforts, in which architectural ideas increasingly seem to focus on hyper-realistic representation in an attempt to convince clients (or the jury in the case of ...

For this article, I'll expect you to know C++ classes, virtual methods and two design patterns known as abstract factory and observer. I also have a working, feature-complete implementation of the ...