That, for good and for ill, has been the reaction of many people upon viewing the eye-catching rendering, which was on display at a Landmarks Preservation Commission session on the building last month.
The building (above, a computer rendering), which is being renovated by the Italian architects Michele de Lucchi and Pierluigi Cerri, in collaboration with New York Studio CUH2a, will have a 9,000-square 9,000-square as well as a restaurant, espresso bar, bookstore and shop.
For all their high-tech gloss, the memorial sequences still hew to the traditional goal of all architectural rendering, which is to show a proposed design in the best possible light, not to simulate the actual experience of the completed project.
Modern renderings fall into two main categories: the quick perspective "design-study," by which an architect records or develops his initial concept of a proposed building, and the carefully executed "presentation rendering," which is a final design made for exhibition and publication.
Therefore, current implementations of the algorithm are not yet suitable for interactive real-time rendering, which is required in games and virtual reality based applications.
Even if the general connectivity of a compound is mapped to a visually pleasing layout, this is not sufficient to result in a compound rendering which is immediately recognizable to the eye of the pattern-trained chemist.
In particular, we decouple the renderer, which is implemented as a client application, from the user input application, which acts as a server.
"I use Octane Render, which is a fast GPU renderer, that allows me to view things nearly in real time, and get out iterations very quickly".
One of the challenges of computer aided styling (CAS) consists in rendering surface forces, which are generated by the interaction of modelling tools and workpieces.
