"Shay" <sah### [at] simcopartscom> wrote in message
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>
> Isosurface bricks. I'm looking forward to seeing how you pull off the
> wooden planks. Will they be individual pieces? Looks good so far. Have
> you considered a grid type image made of several views of the
> schoolhouse? It would be nice to see some of that detail up close. Plus
> you could include some inside shots.

I haven't really thought too much about the planks.  If I can use something
simple and have it look good I certainly will.  The shingles will be
individual pieces, tho probably not iso-surfaces, probably just using
textures with normals or something.

If by a "grid type image" you mean multiple perspectives, that's a good
idea.  I'm planning on (or at least considering) creating several scenes
with this school, so I guess I'll just see where it takes me.  I'm also
considering having a school circa 1900 vs today.  I think a wintry scene
would also work well.  Just for kicks, I did an inside radiosity render a
few days ago.  I'm actually considering creating a "real" inside, rather
than a hollow shell. It's so easy to turn things on and off in POV-Ray, that
such ideas are easy to achieve without really sacrificing the render and
parsing time of the outside scenes.
>
> My favorite old buildings are the recently decayed however. Something
> about seeing a building from the 60s, 70s, or even 80s that is already
> falling apart is really fascinating. There is an old farm house which I
> sneak off to when I visit my in-laws. There are newspapers lying around
> from 1976, but the people in the house obviously had very little
> technology. Most of the buildings have fallen completely down.

I had an idea sor of like that for the IRTC "future" topic.  Take something
that everyone would recognize as being "new" and make it look old.  But I
didn't enter (again).

>
> I do get a little sad when seeing those things, however, because I used
> to actually live in places like that and know that I will likely never
> do so again. Having some type of studio would be a poor substitute. From
> now on, it's air conditioning, television, and driving for me.
>
> I still sneak off and climb buildings and break into warehouses when my
> wife is at work though. To me, any attempt at art is an attempt to
> capture something and bring it into my home, to attempt to create art in
> a place like that would be in my mind to do the opposite.
>

I've been tempted to sneak into this old school, just because I'm so curious
about what's inside, but I guess I'm more fearful of getting caught.  Or
worse yet, falling through the floor or something.  But the door looks
pretty well locked.  I think the "breaking" part of "breaking and entering"
would have to apply.  However, I might be able to stick my camera through
some window holes... Hmmm...

-- 
Jeremy

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