While Rhino has its own built-in rendering tools and its own add-ons (Flamingo and more recently, McNeel has built in the open source Cycles renderer), there are a range of third-party vendors looking to add their own special brand of magic. One of the most popular classes of add-on is rendering and visualisation. The final reason for its popularity is, I suspect, the huge wealth of third-party add-ons that are available. It’s also very good value for money – the list price is 995 Euros – no subscription, no maintenance costs – and this includes the powerful Grasshopper visual scripting tool. It can create incredible forms from scratch and import and export a huge array of data types. Thanks to for their help in producing this video.Rhino is hugely popular among architects for its advanced surface modelling capabilities. This new V-Ray for Rhino service release features enhanced GPU and Hybrid rendering and which when paired with hardware such as the Prevail PRO will significantly reduce render times. Phil demonstrates how Rhino v6 takes full advantage of the high specification GPU and compares this with Rhino v5 before moving on to look at V-Ray for Rhino version 3.6. Whilst this type of machine may be unnecessary for many Rhino users there are those ‘power users’ that would benefit greatly from this type of machine – typically those wishing to manipulate large models and data sets and those wishing to render quickly with V-Ray for Rhino. The Prevail Pro P4000 is an extremely highly specified mobile workstation from PNY featuring a mobile version of the P4000 GPU with 8GB of memory and 1792 CUDA cores. In this video, V-Ray for Rhino v6 GPU and Hybrid Rendering using the PNY Prevail Pro P4000 Mobile Workstation, Phil Cook of Simply Rhino takes a quick look at the Prevail Pro P4000.

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