"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> schreef in bericht 
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> "Thomas de Groot" <tDOTdegroot@interDOTnlANOTHERDOTnet> wrote:
>> There are a couple of interesting developments here.
>>
>> 1) the lowered courtyard (or raised gallery if you wish) is often created
>> for a simple practical reason: rainfall. If you do not want the gallery 
>> to
>> be flooded, just raise it above the court yard level. This is also true 
>> for
>> regions with little rainfall (but huge quantities of rain at once).
>
> Good point. However, I wish you hadn't mentioned this, bacause now I feel 
> that
> maybe I should put some drains and guttering into the gallery floor! Argh! 
> ;-)

Life is hard...

>
>> 2) What Clipka suggests (abrasion by tourist feet) would be nice to 
>> pursue.
>> Between the columns, the flagstones should indeed be hollowed out by 
>> years
>> of use.
>
> Indeed. While this would be an interesting challenge, I shan't be pursuing 
> it in
> this scene, because a) I think it will be very difficult :P and b) I'm 
> after an
> abandoned look, untouched by tourism.

Good. However, even with tourists thrown out (they have no business here 
anyway I believe) the building has been in use for many years in the past, I 
assume. That would also wear the stones down... Let us say that this is some 
future aspect to tackle :-)

Thomas

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