its back in the wip 
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Yes, people power 
, thanks @theoutside and @jeff, these have the potential to be really useful quick presentation styles 
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please post results and settings you are using,
remember, lighting, display mode, materials, and environment ALL have an effect on flair.
for instance raytrace an image and stop it at like 5 samplesā¦ then flair thatā¦ cool watercolor effect comes from the noise in the unfinished rayrtace!
notice how it changes when you turn on sun, or turn off skylight (or vice versa) Notice how it changes if you add or remove reflectivity from your materials, notice how your environment changes thingsā¦
this is an art supply, or a medium for making images, itās not a display style or a ārendererā .
When you get an image you like, note how you got there in general terms since the same settings will not necessarily render the same result from model to model or environment to environment.
You will need to explore and experiment.
In my testing that has been very rewarding.
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this is great. Thanks.
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@theoutside Kyle, any idea when this will be included on the Mac side of the V8 WIP ?
Hi Miles -
As this project is on hold until Rhino 8 is released, any further development, including any macOS UI, will happen in the WIP for Rhino 9.
-wim
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Was it a complete conincident? I almost thought Flair has something to do with this NPR render engine called āFlairā
Why not consider a collaboration?
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Itās probably based on the same set of libraries. although I think the samples, they are showing look great.
This is purely coincidentalā¦and unfortunate. Probably just another nail in Rhino Flairās coffin.
There are no 3rd party libraries being used by Rhino Flair, and the name was arrived at in a meeting based on the acronym FLR which stands for āFiltered Layered Renderingā (which describes the overall process for producing the results). The term āFlairā was then adopted based on that, and the movie āOffice Spaceā.
Itās quite odd that the same name was used for something similar, at the same point in timeā¦quite odd indeed.
-J
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We can still call it FLIR like any thermal imaging camera I guess.
The last visual (blueprint style) is really cool for ArchViz
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YES!! I agreeā¦
That seat is beaut 
Just realised someone else got there first 
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Or call it āFLAVOURā ?
BTW - what about this new tech concerning NPR-rendering > Googleās āSTYLEDROPā ā¦
Iām no software-engineer, but wouldānt this open up a new approach to NPR, or at least to NPR-like results. It would also be very easy to use. Google Research āStyledropā
You can already basically do stylized AI interpretations of the Rhino viewport. You can check out the Ambrosinus Toolkit: Grasshopper Developing AI as Rendering Engine: running Stable Diffusion and ControlNET locally via Grasshopper | lucianoambrosini.it
or
I know this is far from simple to set up, but itās possible.
Both basically have the same approach and result - being able to use Stable Diffusion inside Grasshopper and reimagine a Rhino viewport.
I think Adobe Firefly could also be a pretty convenient way to achieve what Flair can do, but would of course rely on an image and would not update in realtime.
Personally, I think the Flair renderer for Maya really makes sense in the world of animation and characters. For the work we do in Rhino I cannot see a use case for Flair. It just looks so cheesy to me and as a graphic designer I cannot see myself ever wanting or needing them, just like most of the viewport modes like Arctic have no appeal to me.
Using AI to reimagine a viewport or simple render I think has more potential, but should not be built into Rhino. It would be nice as a plugin though.
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Dear Armin,
thanks a lot for this very interesting link !
Best, Claude
I donāt use anything other than Rhino. I would love to see Flair be a part of Version 8 in anyway possible.
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Hi, were can I find the Flair Options in the last WIP Update?