Thomas de Groot nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 19/08/2006 03:13:

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>> High!
>>
>> Are you sure not having extracted the streets rather than the buildings?
>>
>> Otherwise, your picture could inspire me to do some archeological sites in 
>> Afghanistan, like ancient Balkh or Surkh Kotal...
>>
> 
> No, no! These are the walls! You can see the streets in between the houses, 
> even a sewer between the houses. The round structures are probably 
> reservoirs or wells. On the streets, you can see small rectangular 
> structures which were litter boxes, according to archaeologists.
> I found this city plan in an old book: Prehistoric India, by Stuart Piggott, 
> a Pelican Book published in 1950.
> 
> This was a quick experiment. In order to give the different structures also 
> different heights, you will have to make separate traces that you combine 
> later in the render.
> 
> Looking forward to the Afghan digs!
> 
> Thomas 
> 
> 
In several of those old cities, it was common to have twisting streets narower 
than todays tipical residential hallways. Furnitures where often built in your 
house, with the lumbers caried over the, mostly flat, roofs of your neighbors, 
as the streets where possibly to narrow to negociate with the supplies.

-- 
Alain
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