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Rhinoceros (Rhino) is a stand-alone, commercial NURBS-based 3-D modeling tool, developed by Robert McNeel & Associates. The software is commonly used for industrial design
Industrial design

Industrial design is an applied art whereby the aesthetics and usability of mass-produced Product may be improved for marketability and Manufacturing....
, architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
, marine design, jewelry design
Jewelry design

Jewelry design is the art or profession of creating, crafting, fabricating, or rendering designs for jewelry. This is an ancient practice of the goldsmith or metalworker that evolved to a billion-dollar industry with the odyssey from ancient cultures into the machine age....
, automotive design
Automotive design

Automotive design is the profession involved in the development of the appearance, and to some extent the ergonomics, of motor vehicles or more specifically road vehicles....
, CAD / CAM
Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided manufacturing is the use of computer-based software tools that assist engineers and machinists in manufacturing or prototyping product components....
, rapid prototyping
Rapid prototyping

Rapid prototyping is the automatic construction of physical objects using solid freeform fabrication. The first techniques for rapid prototyping became available in the late 1980s and were used to produce models and prototype parts....
, reverse engineering
Reverse engineering

Reverse engineering is the process of discovering the technological principles of a device, object or system through analysis of its structure, function and operation....
 as well as the multimedia
Multimedia

Multimedia is media and content that utilizes a combination of different content format. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms....
 and graphic design
Graphic design

The term graphic design can refer to a number of artistic and professional disciplines which focus on visual communication and presentation. Various methods are used to create and combine symbols, images and/or words to create a visual representation of ideas and messages....
 industries.

Rhino specializes in free-form NURBS modeling.






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Rhinoceros (Rhino) is a stand-alone, commercial NURBS-based 3-D modeling tool, developed by Robert McNeel & Associates. The software is commonly used for industrial design
Industrial design

Industrial design is an applied art whereby the aesthetics and usability of mass-produced Product may be improved for marketability and Manufacturing....
, architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
, marine design, jewelry design
Jewelry design

Jewelry design is the art or profession of creating, crafting, fabricating, or rendering designs for jewelry. This is an ancient practice of the goldsmith or metalworker that evolved to a billion-dollar industry with the odyssey from ancient cultures into the machine age....
, automotive design
Automotive design

Automotive design is the profession involved in the development of the appearance, and to some extent the ergonomics, of motor vehicles or more specifically road vehicles....
, CAD / CAM
Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided manufacturing is the use of computer-based software tools that assist engineers and machinists in manufacturing or prototyping product components....
, rapid prototyping
Rapid prototyping

Rapid prototyping is the automatic construction of physical objects using solid freeform fabrication. The first techniques for rapid prototyping became available in the late 1980s and were used to produce models and prototype parts....
, reverse engineering
Reverse engineering

Reverse engineering is the process of discovering the technological principles of a device, object or system through analysis of its structure, function and operation....
 as well as the multimedia
Multimedia

Multimedia is media and content that utilizes a combination of different content format. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms....
 and graphic design
Graphic design

The term graphic design can refer to a number of artistic and professional disciplines which focus on visual communication and presentation. Various methods are used to create and combine symbols, images and/or words to create a visual representation of ideas and messages....
 industries.

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Rhino specializes in free-form NURBS modeling. Plug-ins developed by McNeel include Flamingo
Flamingo (raytracer)

Flamingo is a plugin for the Rhinoceros 3D modelling software which adds raytracing and radiosity functionality. It is developed by the creators of Rhinoceros, Robert McNeel & Associates and sold both separately and as a bundle with the Rhinoceros software....
 (raytrace rendering), Penguin
Penguin (renderer)

Penguin is a Non-photorealistic rendering for Rhinoceros 3D and Autocad* rendering), and Bongo (animation). Over 100 third-party plugins are also available. Like many modeling applications, Rhino also features a scripting language
Scripting language

A scripting language, script language or extension language, is a programming language that allows some control of a single or many Application software....
 based on the Visual Basic
Visual Basic

'Visual Basic' is the third-generation programming language event-driven programming and integrated integrated development environment from Microsoft for its Component Object Model programming model....
 language, and an SDK that allows reading and writing Rhino files directly.

Rhino's increasing popularity is based on its diversity, multi-disciplinary functions, low learning-curve, relatively low cost, and its ability to import and export over 30 file formats, which allows Rhino to act as a 'converter' tool between programs in a design workflow
Workflow

A workflow is a depiction of a sequence of operations, declared as work of a person, work of a simple or complex mechanism, work of a group of persons, work of an organization of staff, or machines....
.

Development

Rhino was originally distributed as a free, open beta. A broad community of users whose input debugged and added features to the program developed as a result.

The development is on-going; version 4.0 Service Release 5 is current with version 5.0 expected in 2009. Development of a Mac OS X version in progress http://www.irhino3d.com; Beta version . Rhino owners can download the latest beta versions and participate in the development process. Free trial versions are available for download.

File format

The Rhino file format (.3DM) is useful for the exchange of NURBS geometry. The Rhino developers started the to provide computer graphics software developers the tools to accurately transfer 3-D geometry between applications. An open-source toolkit, openNURBS includes the 3DM file format specification, , and to read and write the file format, on supported platforms (Windows, Windows x64, Mac, and Linux). The has more current information.

See also


  • 3D modeling
    3D modeling

    In 3D computer graphics, 3D modeling is the process of developing a Mathematics, wire frame model representation of any Three-dimensional space object via 3d computer graphics software....


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