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The barbican at Mickelgate was pulled down in the 1800s but I made a rough approximation from other sources. #medievalyork #blender3d Similar:Spanish dance @laurelballettheater @westmorelandsymphony The NutcrackerDanceThe ballroom of my #steampunk fantasy space cruiser is now a less lonely place. Thanks to watching many, many YouTub…AestheticsThe Cabaret Theatre (Latrobe) presents Shakespeare's popular Midsummer Supernatural pranksters!…
John Speed’s 1611 map of #medievalyork features a “scale of paces.” My #unity3d placeholder character currently takes 45 steps to run the distance Speed marked as 50 paces. (I can adjust that easily.) Similar:Practicing with materials and geometry. The lamps and chair require hundreds of times as m… AestheticsSomeone seems to have slipped this over…
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