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| Introduction | |
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| Getting Acquainted | |
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| Letting Yourself Go | |
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| Beginning with 2D: A Complete Session | |
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| Direct 3D | |
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| Some Basic Functions | |
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| Combining Objects in Various Ways: The Booleans | |
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| Assignment: A Simple Pavilion | |
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| Bringing A Sense Of Scale | |
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| Sizing Up Your World | |
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| Restraining the Cursor | |
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| Transcending Objects: Working at Multiple Levels | |
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| Executing Transformations and Making Copies | |
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| Editing Elements | |
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| Insertions: A Convenient Alternative to Booleans | |
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| Assignment: An Architectural Block Model | |
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| Personalizing Your Environment | |
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| Your Own Colors and Styles | |
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| Controlling the Displays | |
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| Working With Layers | |
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| Using Your Own Reference Planes | |
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| Having Different Views | |
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| Specifying Your Preferences | |
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| Assignment: An Item of Furniture | |
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| Enhancing Your Modeling Capabilities | |
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| Going Round and Up and Down | |
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| Sweeping Your Way Through | |
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| Skinning and Lofting Your Forms | |
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| Cutting Your Sections | |
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| Moving Over Rugged Terrains | |
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| The Remaining Derivatives | |
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| Rounding, Bending, Fillets, and Draft Angles | |
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| Cultivating Attachments | |
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| Alignments, Distributions, Extensions, and Placements | |
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| Assignment: Site Planning for Urban Design | |
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| Illuminating, Texturing, And Rendering Your World | |
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| Imaging | |
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| Lights Galore! | |
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| Radiosity Based Rendering | |
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| A Closer Look at Textures | |
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| Other Object Properties Assignment: A Table Lamp | |
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| Going Organic | |
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| Plain Meshes and Subdivisions | |
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| Moving, Disturbing, and Deforming Meshes | |
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| Displacing Meshes | |
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| Smooth Curves, C-Curves, and C-Meshes | |
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| Nurbz and Patches | |
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| Cutting and Gluing Freeform Objects | |
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| The Metaphysics of Metaformz | |
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| Assignment: A Curved Roof Structure for a Stadium | |
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| Ending With More | |
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| Writing in 3D | |
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| The Power of Symbols | |
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| Panoramic Views and QuickTime VR | |
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| Animating Your World | |
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| Internal and External Communication | |
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| Appendix: Brief Overview Of The Drafting Module | |
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| Index | |