Some Models from the Last Month

Second Empire

http://www.davidleventi.com/portfolio/new-york/4/

http://picturesqueitalianatearchitecture.blogspot.com/

http://architectura.cesr.univ-tours.fr/Traite/Notice/Vignole1583.asp?param=en

Manufacturers of stuff....
www.balmer.com

Great photos of Italianate cornices....Some good references.....

http://blog.classicist.org/?p=632

http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/28100

http://imgarcade.com/1/cornice-architecture/


A Bing search for "Drawings of Cornices"
"Column Capital Architecture"
"319 Designs for Cornices"

http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/362576

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=did;cc=did;rgn=main;view=text;idno=did2222.0001.607

https://www.behance.net/gallery/Work-in-Practice-Passivhaus-Renovation-Brooklyn-NY/5458503

http://www.architecturalmolded.com/index.html

There is no standard New York City lot size. However, in much of the older parts of the city, i.e., those originally built up in the 19th, especially the later 19th century, building lots tended to have widths in the range of 15-25 feet and depths of about 100 feet (half the short dimension of a rectangular block). The average improved (built-on) lot was about 20 feet wide; unimproved lots were frequently multiples of 25 feet in width, and then subdivided by the developer. This be seen clearly in the case of Manhattan, where a 100 foot wide unimproved lot might end up as six improved lots each 16 feet 8 inches wide. Today the average building lot on the island of Manhattan is about 60 feet wide though the range of widths is even greater than it was in the 19th century. There were nominally some 141,000 25 x 100 foot lots on the island of Manhattan not long after the Civil War; the peak number actually surveyed for sale and improvement was perhaps 125,000 around 1890; the number actually built on closer 105,000 - but the statistics are complicated by the fact that even as new lots were being added to stock at the northern end of the island, older ones were being combined downtown, thus reducing the total number. Today there are some 42,600 building lots on the island of Manhattan, and some 809,000 in the city as a whole. (Note that the number of buildings lots is less than the total number of all blocks, which includes open spaces, vacant land, parking faciities, etc.) 

Bricks and Brownstones by Charles Lockwood.


http://mass.historicbuildingsct.com/?cat=56


http://images.lib.ncsu.edu/luna/servlet/view/all/what/Elevations/Second%20Empire?os=0&pgs=50 

Odell House Concord NC

http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog?f[work_facet][]=Odell%2C+John+Milton+House+%28Concord%2C+N.C.%29

Great blogspot.

http://victorianhouseplans.blogspot.com/search/label/victorian%20houseplan

 Paramount Studio's link to their backlots.....

http://www.paramountstudios.com/stages-backlots/backlots/brownstone-set.html

Building Survey.....used this one before...Has the Carey Building....

http://www.buildingsurvey.net/drawings.html

3d stuff

Andrew Price's video on Blender Compositing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWcCkQ3943Y

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http://www.cgmasters.net/free-tutorials/5-little-known-tricks-in-blenders-outliner/

https://renderedsmoothie.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/cycles-skies/

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https://creativemarket.com/
http://3d.about.com/od/Career-Resources/tp/Top-Ten-Places-To-Sell-3D-Models-Online.htm

Just use a clay material for your car. Settings: The default material, spec hardness to 8.
And for lighting: Delete all lights and only use Ambient Occlusion with settings: Factor: 1.000 Blend Mode: Add
That's how I make clay renders.


http://www.shapeways.com/tutorials/prepping_blender_files_for_3d_printing

http://3dprintingninja.blogspot.com/2014/12/non-manifolds-automatic-fixing-methods.html

http://autoautomobiles.narod.ru/english/volkswagen/Volkswagen-Beetle-1200-1964/

I don't think you can switch drawing units after you've set them for the file

If you are working in inches (have your dim's set to inches), draw a line at 10. This will be 10 "drawing units" and the drawing units are set to inches.

Then draw another one or copy & paste (or offset) the first line. Then scale it.

25.4 mm = 1 inch. So you need to scale it down by 1/25.4

However, you can't enter a fraction with a non-whole number denominator. Thus you need to express that ratio with a whole number denominator.

Anyone?

Anyone?

Anyone?

Bueller?

The scale factor will be 5/127.

Then if you dimension it (with alternate units enabled), it will show 0.394 inches [10 mm]. Of if you're using fractional or engineering units it will show 3/8 [10].

If you start in mm and draw your first line, then you copy it (or offset) and then scale it up with a scale factor of 25.4. Then you'll have a 10 mm line and one which will dimension as 254 mm [10 in]. 

Blender volumetric lighting

Corfe Castle

http://castlexplorer.co.uk/


A late 11th century Norman castle with a circular keep built on a hill on an earlier Saxon site. It was extended in 1210 when the west and outer bailey wallls and towers and the palace, the Gloriette, were added. In the middle of the 13th century the middle and outer gatehouses were built. The castle was sold into private hands in the 16th century, but it was used during the Civil War against Parliamentary troops. After a long siege in 1646 it was severely slighted after surrendering.


A gloriette (from the 12th century French gloire meaning "little room") is a building in a garden erected on a site that is elevated with respect to the surroundings. The structural execution and shape can vary greatly, often in the form of a pavilion or tempietto, more or less open on the sides.

Blender Still Life

Miyajima Torii