Category Archives: Models

Bounded by a Box

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Matthew Miller

A cut edge or a bounding box around a relief map creates cross-sectional profiles through the topography. The edges give additional reference points in visualising the lie of the land and for comparing relative distance, elevation and gradient. Sources and … Continue reading →

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Dioramas – the edge of the world, the end of the world and the time before

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Matthew Miller

Before After The beginning of the world A world in a world The edge of the world

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Prefab Roof

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Matthew Miller
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Aerial Viewing

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Matthew Miller

When a photograph becomes a map, when a map becomes a model. Sources: annotated photograph, aerial map, artist map, model landscape.

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A Model Village Slideshow

Posted on November 12, 2010 by Matthew Miller

Longmoor Urban Training Complex, Hampshire Himley Hall, West Midlands Xe Services LLC, (formerly Blackwater), North Carolina Copehill Down, F.I.B.U.A. Training Facility, Wiltshire Sennybridge Training Area, Mynydd Epynt

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Scenic City

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Matthew Miller

The proliferation of mobile phone base station equipment in cities and in the open landscape has given rise to a new form of scenic art dedicated to reducing visual impact by disguise. Planning guidance on the siting and design of … Continue reading →

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Map Room – Ponderosa

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Matthew Miller

One in a series of video installations I am working on that show the animated drawing of landscape maps featured in popular works of fiction. This was shown in the exhibition, Chipka at Netwerk, Aalst Belgium earlier this year. It … Continue reading →

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That last landscape

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Matthew Miller

My new blog and a couple of starting points – The blog title comes from a line in W. H. Auden’s The Age of Anxiety. “…Does it exist, That last landscape, Of gloom and glaciers and great storms…” The header image is … Continue reading →

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