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Dancing Rabbit is located in a county that has no building codes, which gives members a great deal of leeway in deciding what to build. They do have an environmental covenant that disallows lumber, except for reclaimed lumber and locally harvested wood. Many structures utilize clay taken right out of the ground, often combined with straw bale construction.
Nikon D700
Zenit MC Helios 44M-4 58 mm f/2
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Wildfire Structure Protection near Shan Creek Road on the Taylor Fire by the Eugene Springfield Fire Department. By removing excess brush and debris, crews may have a chance to decrease potential wildfire damage. Credit: Darren Stebbins 7-27-18
Wildfire Structure Protection near Shan Creek Road on the Taylor Fire by the Eugene Springfield Fire Department. By removing excess brush and debris, crews may have a chance to decrease potential wildfire damage. Credit: Darren Stebbins 7-27-18
The stairs and some characters on the corners.
Using a new aspect (for me) of Structure synth and sunflow here:
- by adding a type to an object we can have sunflow use a specific material.
E.g. I might have a line in a rule like:
{ x -0.45 y -1.55 z -0.2 s 0.1 0.1 3 } box::rail
In sunflow I can get all boxes with this type to use the apricot diffuse material if I use this in the template:
(note additon of type field)
Put it next to the box substitution that is already there.
You will also need to add the material "apricot" near the top of the existing 'begin' substitution (along with the existing material definitions).
E.g.
%%shaders
shader {
name "apricot"
type amb-occ
bright 0.92 0.88 0.65
dark 0 0 0
samples 64
dist 12
}
This way you can get specific rules to use specific materials. (and not just colors).
e.g. glass ends on your pieces.
In the one above i used shiny copper for the characters head, apricot ambioc material for the rails, and gray for the doors. The body and the first square use a diffuse green
I'm trying to decide where I should shoot some portraits in an abandoned place... if you can see these, feel free to weigh in. :)
I know, the names are *very* creative... :P
Los Angeles County Firefighters battle a structure fire in an abandoned apartment complex just across from Hollywood Park.
Ambient Occlusion test using the new internal Structure Synth raytracer. (Rendering time: 46s)
set raytracer::ambient-occlusion [100,100,0.9]
set raytracer::shadows false
set raytracer::reflection 0.0
set raytracer::phong [0.4,0.8,1]
set background #fff
set maxdepth 400
3 * { rz 120 } R1
3 * { rz 120 } R2
rule R1 {
{ x 1.3 rx 1.57 rz 6 ry 3 s 0.99 hue 1 sat 0.99 } R1
{ s 4 a 1 color white } sphere
{ s 2.2 x 2 hue 120 a 0.3 color white } sphere
}
rule R2 {
{ x -1.3 rz 6 ry 3 s 0.99 hue 1 sat 0.99 } R2
{ s 4 a 1 color white } sphere
{ s 2.2 x 2 hue 120 a 0.3 color white } sphere
}
Erg Chebbi (Arabic: عرج شبّي) is the sole Saharan erg in Morocco. The erg is 22 km long (North-South) and 5 km wide. Its dunes reach a maximum height of 150 meters. It is located roughly 40 kilometers south-east of Erfoud. The local center for tourists is the village of Merzouga. Supposedly, the locals believe that these dunes were sent as a punishment for turning away a weary traveller from the desert. They say that after they sent away this traveller, the gods made the dunes pile up right outside their town; to teach them a lesson and to never send away weary men and women ever again.
(Wikipedia)
Marvelous dunes comprised of the finest sand one can imagine; beautiful place to hang out!
Shukhov Hyperboloid Structure.
Hyperboloid structures are architectural structures designed using a hyperboloid in one sheet. Often these are tall structures such as towers where the hyperboloid geometry's structural strength is used to support an object high off the ground, but hyperboloid geometry is also often used for decorative effect as well as structural economy. The first hyperboloid structures were built by Russian engineer Vladimir Shukhov.
Hyperbolic structures have a negative Gaussian curvature, meaning they curve inward rather than curving outward or being straight. As doubly ruled surfaces, they can be made with a lattice of straight beams, hence are easier to build than curved surfaces that do not have a ruling and must instead be built with curved beams.
Hyperboloid structures are superior in stability towards outside forces compared with "straight" buildings, but have shapes often creating large amounts of unusable volume (low space efficiency) and therefore are more commonly used in purpose-driven structures, such as water towers (to support a large mass), cooling towers, and aesthetic features.
A good example of a Hyperboloid Structure is the control tower at Newcastle Airport.
The Structure was modelled in Autodesk Inventor and rendered in Autodesk 3DS.
Celebrating number 20 in the Leaf structure photo series :)
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Its a Tamper machine .. What is a tamper machine ?
It's a thing that helps to keep tracks level...Standard railroad tampers work by using sets of heavy-grade steel jacks, which are hydraulically controlled, and feature a small paddle-like design on the very end of the tool. These jacks are then lowered into the ballast at a certain depth, depending on the thickness of the ties and oscillate at thousands of revolutions per minute. This back and forth motion, along with "pushing" the ballast downward, allows the stone to become very free flowing and causes it to work beneath the ties, giving the track structure maximum support. Tamping also helps to level out the ballast a bit, although final sculpting and angling of the stone is left to ballast regulators. You can learn more here
Seen from the City of New Orleans Train In Hammond Louisiana... I know somebody is going to write and say "Thats not a tamper machine" ! But we will work it out eventually if its not : )
OK some body has sent us this information describing all about it.. www.harscorail.com/products/surfacing-mark-iv.aspx
Rock Tombs;
Six rock tombs on the Dalyan river (4th - 2nd century BC), which are Dalyan's prime sight
The façades of the rock tombs resemble the fronts of Hellenistic temples with two Ionian pillars, a triangular pediment, an architrave with toothed friezes, and acroterions shaped like palm leaves.
The Kaunos city walls
The spectacular Kaunos city walls were erected during the reign of Mausolos in the 4th century BC. They are extraproportional in relation to the size of Kaunos and its population, presumably because the satrap had high expectations of the city's future as a marine and commercial port. The city walls start west of the inner port and run along the hills N and NW of the city, to the top of the steep cliff opposite Dalyan centre. There is a walking track along the wall, starting at the Çandır water station. The regularly-shaped rectangular blocks and the way the blocks have been positioned give a fine impression of Hellenistic building techniques. Parts of the wall are well-kept, other parts have been taken down and rebuilt.
UNESCO Tentativelist.
whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5906/
Ancient City of Kaunos
Turkey
Date of Submission: 15/04/2014
Criteria: (i)(ii)(iii)(iv)
Category: Cultural
Submitted by:
Permanent Delegation of Turkey to UNESCO
State, Province or Region:
City of Mugla, Mediterranean Region
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Description
The property within boundaries of District of Koycegiz is located in the face of Dalyan City and on the right shores of Dalyan Stream (Calbis) which connect Koycegiz Lake to Mediterranean. It was the capital of the ‘Kaunos Region’ between the Caria and Lycia until the beginning of the 4th BC.
The existence of Kaunos had known by the scholars but its location was a mystery until English archaeologist Hoskyn discovered it in 1842. Swedish archaeologist P. Roos defined the independent state boundaries of Kaunos as follows: “Starting from the Fethiye Bay at the north and Ancient City of Krya at the north of the bay; extending till Tlos at the 35 km east of Fethiye, Idyma at Gokova Bay at the west and Çamkoy located in the west of Urla which is little forward to north.” In today’s context, the coastal area starting from the south plains of Mugla and extending till the mountains between Mugla and Antalya was under the sovereignty of Kaunos. Kaunos has kept this borders until the 4th century BC but then lost its statue of sovereign state after the Persian invasion. It was one of two cities resisting against Persian invasion (other is Xanthos) such that they paid high taxes to prevailing states many times in order to keep their independency as a port city.
Kaunos was mentioned as Ksibde in Lycian scripts, while as Kbid in the scripts of other surrounding cities. Life style and language of Kaunos people share similarities with Carian people except five letters in their alphabet are not seen in latter which makes Kaunos language is unique to them. Heredot reveals in this respect that “There is Carian influence in their language or their influence in Carian language. This is an issue which I couldn’t clarify.” In fact, epigraphic materials in Carian language are found mostly in Kaunos today. Kaunosian could not be understood until very recently just because Carian language was not decoded. However, by virtue of a stela written in Greek and Carian, it has been possible to unravel Carian language and a little of Kaunosian due to Greek language had already been known.
Kaunos was an important sea port city with two ports; one is in the south at the southeast of Küçük Kale (Small Castle) and the inner port at its northwest, the present Sülüklü Göl (the Lake of the Leeches). The southern port was used from the foundation of the city till roughly the end of the Hellenistic era, after which it became inaccessible due to its drying out. The latter was used till the late days of Kaunos, but due to the silting of the delta and the ports, Kaunos had by then lost its important function as a trade port and started becoming poor. After Caria had been captured by Turkish tribes and the serious malaria epidemic of the 15th century AD, Kaunos was completely abandoned.
The city was constructed on terraces; significant religious structures like Baselius Kaunios Temple, Apollon Sanctuary and Demeter Sacred Rocks on one side and Bath, Theatre and other structures including Palaestra on a large terrace which is called Upper City on the other. The monumental terrace on which the Upper City situated connects Baliklar Mountain with the Acropolis by extending the city into Mediterranean like a tongue and naturally creating a second harbour basin in the east.
In many places in the ancient city, it has been found stone cutlery and arrowheads from Palaeolithic era. The finding and remains in Kaunos reveal the prosperity of the city as a great power of its time and that it was a sovereign state which minted on its behalf. The coins printed in this region especially in the first half of the 5th century BC are of great importance since a winged figure is displayed on the front side while pyramidal formed monoliths on the back. Besides, letters of K and B found on the coins are important due to they are the first two letters of the first name of Kaunos, Kbid.
The oldest find at the Kaunos archaeological site is the neck of a Protogeometric amphora dating back to the 9th century BC, or even earlier. A statue found at the western gate of the city walls, pieces of imported Attic ceramics and the South – Southeast oriented city walls show habitation in the 6th century BC. Although none of the architectural finds at Kaunos itself dates back to earlier than the 4th century BC, history of Kaunos is believed much earlier than that.
Because of the paleogeographic formation of Dalyan Delta and the silting of the former Bay of Dalyan (from approx. 200 BC onwards), Kaunos is now located about 8 km from the coast.