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JOURNAL
Build logs from the workshop — digital twins, survey-grade 3D, procedural systems, and the mistakes that taught us the methodology.
The Road Film
A client site now opens as a four act film you scroll: 133 pre-rendered plates fall toward a city, 41 more stand the camera up out of the fall, and a live three.js corridor carries the last 55% of the page to a horizon. The hard cut between the two plate sequences is 1.72 of 255 wide, which is why it is allowed to be a cut.
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The Crown
The black glass-and-iron cap is a quarter of the tower and most of its identity. The 1860 sheet that governs it is torn exactly where it needed to be precise — so the lantern was re-solved from its base up, its lost faces recovered by the octagon's eightfold symmetry, every dimension logged to the sheet it came from.
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The Keeper's Hand
The archives drew the bracket too small and the photographs shot it too oblique — so the final curve was drawn by hand in a live viewport, faired to compass arcs, and cast eight times in iron.
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The Mason's Arithmetic
Our lighthouse's crown looked almost right — the most dangerous kind of wrong. An 1860 wash-profile scan, one section cut, and eighteen counted brick courses later, the frieze stands plumb.
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The Lighthouse, Brick by Brick
3,874 blocks, 3,700 bricks, a 48-pane lantern counted from photographs — then the National Archives' 1860 drawings arrived and the tower had to answer to its own paper trail.
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From PS2 to Photoreal in One Day
Our digital twin of Montauk Point looked like an early PS2 game. One day later it did not. The ladder: path tracing, a physical sky, procedural trees, and a living ocean.
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We Measured a Lighthouse From Space
Survey documents said 110 feet 6 inches. Photogrammetry said 34 meters. A public lidar point cloud settled it to within one percent — and taught us a measurement doctrine.
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