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Create real-time and rendered analytic visualizations. Analytic visualization is about communicating information about your project in a nonliteral way, and it's very important! It's not about showing real materials in the project but using filters to visualize important metadata.

Master It During the renovation of a space, you want to reuse the doors rather than throw them away. How would you illustrate this?

Render emotive photorealistic visualizations. Photorealistic visualization is also about communicating design ideas but in emotive ways that are much closer to how the space will be experienced, including real lighting, materials, and entourage. Just remember that the time it takes to calculate and render your views will ...

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