Category Archives: Thearender

Titanic Boiler Room

Posted on February 5, 2012 by thedude

Andrew’s at it again. This time he’s going to turn an Olympic-size pool pump room into the boiler room of the Titanic. He’ll blend the real pipes into those in the wall-size painting.

The quick-and-dirty render above shows the view as you enter the pump room. The sand-colored objects in the foreground are placeholders for the real pumps.

I know Andrew – this will be awesome to see. I’ll try to post some images to illustrate his amazing technique as soon as the work begins.

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Another PGM Rendering

Posted on July 14, 2011 by thedude

Most of you have noticed that I haven’t been posting a lot lately. The main reason for this is that I am so busy at work. When I’m not tending to IT tasks, I use every spare cycle rendering one thing or another. I really love doing this work, but it consumes a lot of time I might otherwise spend blogging. Sorry!

This latest rendering of the Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine will be used in a very cool brochure. The image will stretch from the front to the back of an 11 x 17″ brochure. Woo-hoo!

Rendered with the fabulous Thea Reneder.

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Pratt & Whitney Engine

Posted on May 18, 2011 by thedude

Another Thea Render from a freely downloaded SketchUp model. Wow!

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Mo’ Rendering

Posted on May 18, 2011 by thedude

I’m having so much fun learning SketchUp and Thea Render!

Looking for excuses to create 3D objects, I decided to create a model of the public areas in our building. This could come in very handy, as we are currently working with a designer on updating the 80′s design. This is our building’s lobby with new colors applied.

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The Personal Genome Machine 360 View

Posted on April 25, 2011 by thedude

Swipe your mouse left and right for a 360 view.

This 3D Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine was rendered using TheaRender from a .3DS file exported from the original SolidWorks file. Raw PNG images batch resized with Irfanview, combined using a custom python script, (Thanks, Josh!) compressed into JPEG format with Photoshop and “animated” with the fabulous jQuery Reel plugin. Piece o’ cake!

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Thea Render

Posted on March 5, 2011 by thedude




I’ve been playing around with what I consider to be a very fine renderer. Thea Render produces images with stiking realism. It runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. It supports slave rendering nodes. Slaves can be configured to cooperatively render a single image. This very cool feature yields excellent rendering speeds. I hope to have more 3D stuff to post soon!

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