Visualization And Communication - Autodesk ALIAS DESIGN Brochure

Visualization and Communication
Communicate your design intent—bring your ideas to
life. Help team members and customers understand
and visualize designs, so they can easily evaluate design
options.
Interactive Shading
Use shading models to increase realism and to
evaluate surfaces and design forms. Autodesk
Alias Design software reduces the need for
time-consuming renderings with immediate
visual feedback. The software supports material
color, texture, glow, incandescence, bump, and
displacement, and lets you quickly verify surface
conditions such as curvature maps, zebra stripes,
and draft angles.
Ambient Occlusion
Render shading based on an omnidirectional light
source to create general areas of shadow on models.
Ambient occlusion, crucial to creating realistic
environments with ambient lighting, provides soft
shading similar to that of other complex, indirect
lighting techniques.
Image-Based Lighting (IBL)
Use high dynamic range imaging (HDRI) as the light
source for interactive visualization and rendering.
The result is more realistic images for evaluating,
presenting, and marketing designs.
Compelling Output
Get high-resolution images without a full software
rendering. With Alias Design, you can instantly save
high-resolution images of any modeling window.
Compose images that display wireframes, canvas
planes, or fully shaded models to create turntables
or 360-degree interactive QuickTime® VR files.
Software Rendering
Photorealistic rendering capabilities in Alias
Design let you create images for print, video, or
interactive presentations. Alias Design raycast and
ray-trace renderers incorporate ambient occlusion
calculations (soft shadows) and HDRI support for
added realism.
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