Ground, drawn from real terrain and painted from the model

Every piece here began as elevation data for a real place, fetched, shaped and viewed in Coyote Mountain Topo, then exported as a drawing sheet, recorded as video, or handed to an image painter as a structured control. Most of it is in the hills near Ensenada, Baja California: Encino Solo, a ranch, and Centro Equino, a horse centre designed in the tool on the real ground.

home siteEncino Solo

designed hereCentro Equino

drone survey1,021,033 pts

pieces·

In motion

recorded straight from the tool

One view, many ways

Centro Equino · the model first, then paintings of it

Each row is one camera on the model. The first picture is the model itself, with no AI: the ground, the buildings, the roads and the planting as designed. The rest are painters (OpenAI and Google's Gemini) given that picture as a strict control and asked for a time of day or a kind of weather. The model is the truth; the paintings are what it could feel like.

Lines

make · line drawings · the ground as rows of ink, hidden lines removed, ready for a pen plotter

Mash-ups

the ground stays a data map (slope, aspect, elevation); a painter grows the living place on it

Cities

real terrain with every building and road from OpenStreetMap, straight from the 3d model

Design sheets

Centro Equino · water, grading, irrigation, the design as a system

Early experiments

the first two weeks: the 3d view as control, a painter's picture on top

Drawing sheets

plan, model and section at a standard scale, with a title block

Survey and studies

points, sun, sections