Greenwater Landscape 03

I made this stone building and didn’t use it last year, so this seemed like a nice spot! 7 hour render, that labyrinth has over 400 parts!

That labyrinth sort of calls out for more, doesn’t it? thanks Lina!!

Thanks Peter, looking at that sample image on the right, I get the feeling it’s looking back at me! this is BIG FUN!

Thanks Lynda! you can never be sure exactly how one of these will turn out, I have an earlier one that uses a photo of me turned into a mountain… that’s a strange feeling!

My earliest work with Bryce was all strange landscape shapes, based on the same principal, you can sit for hours and load in vacation photos, the dog sleeping, fractals, scanned artwork, paintings, photoshop scribbles, and watch them pop into mountains and valleys, both Bryce and Vue will do this. Big Fun!

Thanks Steven! Making one of these is kind of like going in there with a teensy camera and hiking all over the place taking snapshots; of course there’s a lot of satisfaction in moving mountains and sun and sky!

I used to do nothing but this sort of thing in Bryce for hours and hours, loading in every jpeg or tiff in the computer, or just making stuff in photoshop to see literally how it stacked up! Glad you like!!

Thank you Keith, this time I really got the feeling of being this tiny guy tramping around on this hill taking teensy snapshots!

That’s actually a labyrinth thing I made using 3D Home Architect, you draw your walls using a pen tool after selecting the height, thickness, and material… of course I went way beyond the rules of architecture, like in Blue Man #3, Gas Food Lodging

Hee hee! You are quite right, or even draw it in Strata. What’s amazing about 3D Home Architect is you can choose the windows or openings tool and create arches or holes or windows with trim and glass with one click, and the materials follow the export into Vue. I made this TOWER that way, roof shingles and all

I’ve been looking at fractals for some time wondering how this or that would translate into an elevation map, have one in the works right now from Bunny Clark you’ll see in a couple of days.

And this one was a good spot for this maze shape made in an architectual program.

Good point, I’ve seen both of those; this to me is more of an artifact, and not a true maze, as you can quickly see a way to the center on the right side. This one, however seeming similar, is a building made of one long corridor that ends where it begins, restricting with only one access, yet airy with a hundred windows, and courtyard, a sanctuary instead of a prison:

Here is a view from the inside:

Not far off the mark, my friend!

The ladder access implies meteorological extremes, from desert to flood plain for instance, rather than unsociability, also suggested by the giant fossils making up the canyon walls. The VW was a lucky last minute choice that fits Blue Man’s personality quite perfectly, if you’ve followed the series.

I didn’t emphasize the fossils in this, to not take away from all the detail, but the seed has been planted, and I love the concept of predecessors much much larger and more intelligent than our largest dinosaurs and whales. Got that idea from the sky designs, in Peru? that can only be discerned from a fantastic altitude.
And it’s surprising how many replies to this one:

are from people who had one of these! Fits the Blue Man very well.

Exploration is a great description, because once the place is constructed, I put on my hiking boots and go wandering, just like a guy with a camera and time to enjoy the countryside. I located probably 8 sites before I started adding greenery and stuff.