Interesting project. And after that, Rome of the year 117 AD?   :-)





On 29.02.2016 22:38, Jörg 'Yadgar' Bleimann wrote:
> Hi(gh)!
> 
> On New Year's Day, I decided for the first time to seriously start with
> a landmark building complex for Kabul, POVghanistan: the Soviet-built
> airport, as it looked like around 1970. So I googled for photos showing
> the airport back then, and found a close-up of the domestic flights
> control tower:
>
http://footage.framepool.com/shotimg/qf/296679019-kabul-international-airport-hand-luggage-tower-airport-kabul-city.jpg
> 
> 
> Another one from 1969, showing the whole building as seen from the
> airfield: http://www.airports-worldwide.com/img/w/kabul_airport_in_1969.jpg
> 
> And attached here is with what I came up after two months... pathetic,
> isn't it?
> 
> And then I see all your sophisticated projects (Gancaloon and many
> others) and I wonder how you get all that work done, beside your proper
> occupations, partners, family, other hobbies... as an early retiree, I
> have so much more free time available - and still hardly get anything
> done! Could it be that I simply do not have the talent required for
> doing 3D graphics? Or could it be that POV-Ray simply is not a software
> which supports an efficient workflow (are there any professional 3D
> designers using POV-Ray? I doubt...)?
> 
> Given the current speed of progress, this modest airport tower will
> occupy me for the entire year 2016 - not to mention the terrain
> heightfield, which will be completed around 2030, having started in 2004
> (unless there will be satellite elevation data of the same resolution
> readily available!). So I'll spend a vast portion of my life to cobble
> together a crude version of POVghanistan/Khyberspace, without ever being
> able to visit REAL Afghanistan (originally, Khyberspace was meant as a
> substitution for the unreachable real thing) and obviously lacking the
> basic skills necessary for POVing, let along using any other
> modeler/raytracer... Khyberspace probably will never be much more than
> Kabul International Airport... I just waste my life!
> 
> It's so frustrating... all these things are so huge, and I'm so small!
> 
> See you in... forget it!
> 
> Yadgar

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