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News Release from: Autodesk | Subject: EASYnat
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 22 November 2004
Autodesk Latest Plant Simulation
Software
EASYnat, a plant generator for the AEC industry from Bionatics, is now fully integrated into Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2005 (ADT) and Autodesk VIZ 2005.
EASYnat, a plant generator for the AEC industry from Bionatics, is now fully integrated into Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2005 (ADT) and Autodesk VIZ 2005 This means architects will now find it easier to model botanically accurate vegetation in 2D or 3D using ADT and visualise it using VIZ Render
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EASYnat also simulates the growth of plants and their seasonal changes.
The latest version offers significantly enhanced data exchange making it very simple to interchange plant models between ADT and VIZ.
Also, thanks to texture sharing capabilities, forest can be quickly generated without a heavy burden on the memory.
"The use of vegetation has become a basic criteria of architectural design," says Pelle Chiari, business manager, Autodesk Building Solutions Division.
"With EASYnat fully integrated, ADT now offers architects and building professionals a simple solution to modelling exterior environments for their projects and enabling them to meet increasingly demanding market requirements." EASYnat can automatically model a plant in 3D or 2D thanks to a revolutionary hybrid technique that combines the two.
The solution enables the user to generate a 3D plant with minimal polygons and maximum realism.
It saves CPU and memory usage to accelerate render times.
ADT has a built-in base library of four species and these can then be augmented with trees and plants from the Bionaticsū website.
These can be placed on a plan in 2D vectorial form, but then can be instantly expanded to a 3D realistic view.
Bionatics has also recently developed a version for Autodesk VIZ 4 users which is downloadable from its website (www.bionatics.com). Request a free brochure from Autodesk ...
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