Here's an insightful (and entertaining) book on the subject.

Peter

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This is a great book. Can't say I've mended my ways, but at least I know more about the problem. It has exercises and, if I ever get around to it, they might help....

Peter

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My wife will be delighted to see this work. She loves the books.

I'd say the house is great, maybe too well lit and regular? I'd expect medieval lighting to be uneven warm glows (plus a few greenish glares from the more questionable practitioners' stores).

I appreciate the fun you're having with this, having been a Tolkien and Narnia fan myself. But I read one Discworld book and did not get it.

Gook luck

Tells the story nicely. Great compositions and I can tell you considered the previous comments. Congratulations. Now sell these ski lodges and get the economy going again.

Serves them right always looking for handouts, the little commies.

Now look. Obama has an illegal alien aunt, and he didn't even know it. She also has been funneling him funds illegally, about $250. This could be October surprise Palin / McCain need!

CADfather,

Thanks. As I have not used all these yet, this will be a good way to get started. This could be the beginning of a whole architect suite. On the Mac I find that sometimes the icons stay selected after I have moved on to another tool, so many icons can be selected (darkened) at once. Is this OK?

Peter

Those students sure have nice apartments. Where's the mattress on the floor?

These look great, Cornel. What kind of rendering was done?

That's good. I didn't mean to throw water on any design work scenario. This could be the proving of a true community feeling. Who decides design direction though? I also did not mean to imply there would be one designer only. I am most familiar with private practice where someone eventually has the decision making power over all others, in order to move forward where different solutions are proposed. Personally I am not worthy to tie the modeling or design shoes of many here. If given a task, I'd be honored to fill-in the caulk on someone else's idea.

You need not be egotistical or arrogant to feel you are right. Designers are creative people who naturally have their own strong ideas. I look forward to seeing the collaborative process do some good, like the many amateur computers doing long computations, or the many amateur astronomers combing the skies.

Great use of modeling.

I wonder, is the switch to red on the sides of historical significance? I know of some buildings, locally ,that used the more expensive facing on the front facade and went to red brick on the sides, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. If not, why not carry the same facade material color back, in more classical style and not draw attention to the side transitions?

I like the Bedroom images. Very good rendering. Is that room on a earthquake fault? Continue a jagged line of marble across the floor?

I wonder what the feel of the conference room ceiling will be with people in it?

We had a glass table like that in our conference room. Very cool but I hated it. And a tile floor too. The room could be acoustically challenged and cold. Trying to shorten meeting times? The table causes glare and you get to see everyone's laps (no chance to scratch). The chairs look comfy though!

Ingenious use of the concrete matrix. And the sepulchral stairway is intriguing.

I like the presentation style a lot, for this subject. Nice people.

Mike, there a two types of projects. Some projects have a well outlined design that needs fleshing out. (eg. a straight forward prototype shelter design, or mapping /modeling something that exists for the use of the community or organization). The other is a full design project. How can a bunch of opinionated designers collaborate on a design? That would be a breakthrough in itself.

buy me one and I'll send you photos.

Because AutoDesk bought it and no one is brave enough to tell us.

I just zoomed out, clicking on the red axis, until Bryce looked to be the right size to be standing near the corner. I assumed the base of the exterior wall being somewhere near the top of the retaining wall. Then with the measuring tool I measured up the blue axis, from the point you would begin drawing.

Nice, you can put it on Clayoquot Sound with this one:

Don't you think she needs a deeper draft?

As a realistic image the third one really puts you in the room. As an architectural rendering the combo is most beautiful IMHO. Great work!

Ridix,

I would use the top corners of the building, plus the window line visible on the right, and the top of the retaining wall on the left. Is that what you did? The streets look to be sloping. I'll try it out when I have a moment.

I think the horizon looks horizontal... The Picture is not quite vertical as the blue axis does not align with the focal vertical edge. I'd adjust that in PS or other image editor first. I don't think photomatch can automatically give scale. You scale it yourself. I just zoomed placing the cursor on the red axis. until Bryce looked like he was near the corner of the building. The Building then measures about 165' high. You can adjust more exactly if you know how big it is. The zooming was more difficult because the axis and the horizon as I set them up are on top of each other.

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Ridix,

Have you watched the BaseCamp videos on PhotoMatch? I can't say what is causing your issues. One point that is made on posts here is that the photo should not be cropped, in order to work well. The image may have been cropped already. You can try to fix that by adding to the image before import. If the building looks vertical in the photo I doubt it was taken with a crooked horizon. Can you find horizontal lines to use in the building itself? As you know, pictures of high buildings have more distortion in them, in order to get the whole building in the view. That could be part of the difficulty. From the videos it seems something can be done with just about any image. The results of PM are always going to be a compromise, I think, based on the image distortion and limited accuracy. Post the file?

Peter