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Vogtsbauernhof
Visited the Black Forest open air museum Vogtsbauernhof in 77793 Gutach / Germany. This is a huge areal that has several very old farm buildings, that have been carefully de- and reconstructed on this site. There are often also tours, demonstrations or hands-on activities how people used to live in the Black Forest area but as a half-timber nutter I’m mostly interested in the buildings. These are from various periods starting as early as 1407 (though that’s an often refurbished exception).
Shooting any sort of pictures with my smartphone camera was very hard because the insides of the buildings are unbelievable dark and hardly lit. I guess this is driving home a point in itself. Anyway I did my best to improve the photos somewhat with Darktable (not that I have any idea what I’m doing there). Also the galleries won’t syndicate so you’ll have to check the source for the pictures.
Here are some of the pictures that are very dark in reality.
We also looked at plenty of farm equipment, of course. In fact one of the farms is still operated and has livestock around.
One of the most interesting things I found was a “mini house” that is basically of fridge for milk. It utilizes a water stream to keep milk on the inside cold.
Some of these buildings simply look gorgeous on the outside but my kids were pretty certain that they’d not actually want to life in such a building. Beside the darkness on the inside one could also always feel how air makes it inside. There’s always a slight breeze, which is probably nice in the summertime but not so much in the wintertime. Especially with only a few places around to heat the buildings.
One of their major show pieces is probably the Schlössle von Effringen, which is basically a mini castle that has been remade again and again dating back to ~11C.
This is also where I shot most of my pictures. Sadly we were running out of time and I have to revisit this again so look at some things a little closer. And maybe leave the kids at home too. They don’t really have the required patience.
I also rather enjoyed the various kitchens, that were almost all “smoke kitchens” – means the smoke from the kitchen fire was used to conserve food. This is a very medieval thing to do. Sadly the pictures I made don’t do them justice since they are basically black holes, that cameras struggle hard with.
One of the things I enjoyed most are models of various buildings. I made many photos of these for inspiration. Maybe I’ll come back to recreating such buildings in the Rising World game one day.
And last some unsorted photos in portrait mode (ugh, it happens, mkay?)
Website of the museum is: https://www.vogtsbauernhof.de/en with plenty of more pictures and a 360deg tour. Can recommend. Alas bring food along – the restaurants next to the site are rather expensive. Museum is worth every cent though IMHO.
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Vogtsbauernhof
Visited the Black Forest open air museum Vogtsbauernhof in 77793 Gutach / Germany. This is a huge areal that has several very old farm buildings, that have been carefully de- and reconstructed on this site. There are often also tours, demonstrations or hands-on activities how people used to live in the Black Forest area but as a half-timber nutter I’m mostly interested in the buildings. These are from various periods starting as early as 1407 (though that’s an often refurbished exception).
Shooting any sort of pictures with my smartphone camera was very hard because the insides of the buildings are unbelievable dark and hardly lit. I guess this is driving home a point in itself. Anyway I did my best to improve the photos somewhat with Darktable (not that I have any idea what I’m doing there). Also the galleries won’t syndicate so you’ll have to check the source for the pictures.
Here are some of the pictures that are very dark in reality.
We also looked at plenty of farm equipment, of course. In fact one of the farms is still operated and has livestock around.
One of the most interesting things I found was a “mini house” that is basically of fridge for milk. It utilizes a water stream to keep milk on the inside cold.
Some of these buildings simply look gorgeous on the outside but my kids were pretty certain that they’d not actually want to life in such a building. Beside the darkness on the inside one could also always feel how air makes it inside. There’s always a slight breeze, which is probably nice in the summertime but not so much in the wintertime. Especially with only a few places around to heat the buildings.
One of their major show pieces is probably the Schlössle von Effringen, which is basically a mini castle that has been remade again and again dating back to ~11C.
This is also where I shot most of my pictures. Sadly we were running out of time and I have to revisit this again so look at some things a little closer. And maybe leave the kids at home too. They don’t really have the required patience.
I also rather enjoyed the various kitchens, that were almost all “smoke kitchens” – means the smoke from the kitchen fire was used to conserve food. This is a very medieval thing to do. Sadly the pictures I made don’t do them justice since they are basically black holes, that cameras struggle hard with.
One of the things I enjoyed most are models of various buildings. I made many photos of these for inspiration. Maybe I’ll come back to recreating such buildings in the Rising World game one day.
And last some unsorted photos in portrait mode (ugh, it happens, mkay?)
Website of the museum is: https://www.vogtsbauernhof.de/en with plenty of more pictures and a 360deg tour. Can recommend. Alas bring food along – the restaurants next to the site are rather expensive. Museum is worth every cent though IMHO.
This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
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Vogtsbauernhof
Visited the Black Forest open air museum Vogtsbauernhof in 77793 Gutach / Germany. This is a huge areal that has several very old farm buildings, that have been carefully de- and reconstructed on this site. There are often also tours, demonstrations or hands-on activities how people used to live in the Black Forest area but as a half-timber nutter I’m mostly interested in the buildings. These are from various periods starting as early as 1407 (though that’s an often refurbished exception).
Shooting any sort of pictures with my smartphone camera was very hard because the insides of the buildings are unbelievable dark and hardly lit. I guess this is driving home a point in itself. Anyway I did my best to improve the photos somewhat with Darktable (not that I have any idea what I’m doing there). Also the galleries won’t syndicate so you’ll have to check the source for the pictures.
Here are some of the pictures that are very dark in reality.
We also looked at plenty of farm equipment, of course. In fact one of the farms is still operated and has livestock around.
One of the most interesting things I found was a “mini house” that is basically of fridge for milk. It utilizes a water stream to keep milk on the inside cold.
Some of these buildings simply look gorgeous on the outside but my kids were pretty certain that they’d not actually want to life in such a building. Beside the darkness on the inside one could also always feel how air makes it inside. There’s always a slight breeze, which is probably nice in the summertime but not so much in the wintertime. Especially with only a few places around to heat the buildings.
One of their major show pieces is probably the Schlössle von Effringen, which is basically a mini castle that has been remade again and again dating back to ~11C.
This is also where I shot most of my pictures. Sadly we were running out of time and I have to revisit this again so look at some things a little closer. And maybe leave the kids at home too. They don’t really have the required patience.
I also rather enjoyed the various kitchens, that were almost all “smoke kitchens” – means the smoke from the kitchen fire was used to conserve food. This is a very medieval thing to do. Sadly the pictures I made don’t do them justice since they are basically black holes, that cameras struggle hard with.
One of the things I enjoyed most are models of various buildings. I made many photos of these for inspiration. Maybe I’ll come back to recreating such buildings in the Rising World game one day.
And last some unsorted photos in portrait mode (ugh, it happens, mkay?)
Website of the museum is: https://www.vogtsbauernhof.de/en with plenty of more pictures and a 360deg tour. Can recommend. Alas bring food along – the restaurants next to the site are rather expensive. Museum is worth every cent though IMHO.
This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
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Vogtsbauernhof
Visited the Black Forest open air museum Vogtsbauernhof in 77793 Gutach / Germany. This is a huge areal that has several very old farm buildings, that have been carefully de- and reconstructed on this site. There are often also tours, demonstrations or hands-on activities how people used to live in the Black Forest area but as a half-timber nutter I’m mostly interested in the buildings. These are from various periods starting as early as 1407 (though that’s an often refurbished exception).
Shooting any sort of pictures with my smartphone camera was very hard because the insides of the buildings are unbelievable dark and hardly lit. I guess this is driving home a point in itself. Anyway I did my best to improve the photos somewhat with Darktable (not that I have any idea what I’m doing there). Also the galleries won’t syndicate so you’ll have to check the source for the pictures.
Here are some of the pictures that are very dark in reality.
We also looked at plenty of farm equipment, of course. In fact one of the farms is still operated and has livestock around.
One of the most interesting things I found was a “mini house” that is basically of fridge for milk. It utilizes a water stream to keep milk on the inside cold.
Some of these buildings simply look gorgeous on the outside but my kids were pretty certain that they’d not actually want to life in such a building. Beside the darkness on the inside one could also always feel how air makes it inside. There’s always a slight breeze, which is probably nice in the summertime but not so much in the wintertime. Especially with only a few places around to heat the buildings.
One of their major show pieces is probably the Schlössle von Effringen, which is basically a mini castle that has been remade again and again dating back to ~11C.
This is also where I shot most of my pictures. Sadly we were running out of time and I have to revisit this again so look at some things a little closer. And maybe leave the kids at home too. They don’t really have the required patience.
I also rather enjoyed the various kitchens, that were almost all “smoke kitchens” – means the smoke from the kitchen fire was used to conserve food. This is a very medieval thing to do. Sadly the pictures I made don’t do them justice since they are basically black holes, that cameras struggle hard with.
One of the things I enjoyed most are models of various buildings. I made many photos of these for inspiration. Maybe I’ll come back to recreating such buildings in the Rising World game one day.
And last some unsorted photos in portrait mode (ugh, it happens, mkay?)
Website of the museum is: https://www.vogtsbauernhof.de/en with plenty of more pictures and a 360deg tour. Can recommend. Alas bring food along – the restaurants next to the site are rather expensive. Museum is worth every cent though IMHO.
This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
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Vogtsbauernhof
Visited the Black Forest open air museum Vogtsbauernhof in 77793 Gutach / Germany. This is a huge areal that has several very old farm buildings, that have been carefully de- and reconstructed on this site. There are often also tours, demonstrations or hands-on activities how people used to live in the Black Forest area but as a half-timber nutter I’m mostly interested in the buildings. These are from various periods starting as early as 1407 (though that’s an often refurbished exception).
Shooting any sort of pictures with my smartphone camera was very hard because the insides of the buildings are unbelievable dark and hardly lit. I guess this is driving home a point in itself. Anyway I did my best to improve the photos somewhat with Darktable (not that I have any idea what I’m doing there). Also the galleries won’t syndicate so you’ll have to check the source for the pictures.
Here are some of the pictures that are very dark in reality.
We also looked at plenty of farm equipment, of course. In fact one of the farms is still operated and has livestock around.
One of the most interesting things I found was a “mini house” that is basically of fridge for milk. It utilizes a water stream to keep milk on the inside cold.
Some of these buildings simply look gorgeous on the outside but my kids were pretty certain that they’d not actually want to life in such a building. Beside the darkness on the inside one could also always feel how air makes it inside. There’s always a slight breeze, which is probably nice in the summertime but not so much in the wintertime. Especially with only a few places around to heat the buildings.
One of their major show pieces is probably the Schlössle von Effringen, which is basically a mini castle that has been remade again and again dating back to ~11C.
This is also where I shot most of my pictures. Sadly we were running out of time and I have to revisit this again so look at some things a little closer. And maybe leave the kids at home too. They don’t really have the required patience.
I also rather enjoyed the various kitchens, that were almost all “smoke kitchens” – means the smoke from the kitchen fire was used to conserve food. This is a very medieval thing to do. Sadly the pictures I made don’t do them justice since they are basically black holes, that cameras struggle hard with.
One of the things I enjoyed most are models of various buildings. I made many photos of these for inspiration. Maybe I’ll come back to recreating such buildings in the Rising World game one day.
And last some unsorted photos in portrait mode (ugh, it happens, mkay?)
Website of the museum is: https://www.vogtsbauernhof.de/en with plenty of more pictures and a 360deg tour. Can recommend. Alas bring food along – the restaurants next to the site are rather expensive. Museum is worth every cent though IMHO.
This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
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https://www.laviezine.com/1149447/exploring-the-cathedral-in-le-mans-france/ Exploring the Cathedral in Le Mans, France #architecture #Cathedral #France #FranceDestinations #FranceTour #FranceTravel #FranceTrip #FranceVacation #HalfTimberHouse #HalfTimber #HistoricalSite #LeMans #LeMansCathedral #LeMansFranceTour #LeMansOldTown #MedievalTown #PlacesToTravel #Plantagenet #Sarte #StreetView #VirtualTour #VisitFrance #VisitLeMans #walking #WalkingTour
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With #RisingWorld (Unity) improving a lot lately we’re feature wise almost on par with the old Java version again. Due to my hobbies I’m playing on the #medieval server https://medievalrealms.co.uk/ where I usually construct buildings based on specific periods according to my understanding of timber-framed constructions. Which may not be the best to rely on but hey, it’s a game after all.
One of the features still missing is an ingame map. We do have the compass already though and with debug enabled we even get an exact position on the current map. And the new maps are huge! And since we’re building here in multiplayer it’s no wonder that this is a dire missed feature to get an idea where the others are and what they are building, because it’s not fun navigating with X,Y,Z alone to visit other players (and keep note of where the own spot is located).
So I was intrigued to see that the player @Bamse did what gamers tend to do when a feature is missing. They start some sort of helper app (or wiki or whatever). This resulted in a #QGIS Cloud map project at https://qgiscloud.com/Bamse/MapMedievalRealms/ where players from the same server may add POIs and do the leg work of surveying the “new” world.
The only drawback (haha. sorry.) is: It’s a PITA to do the surveying because stopping every few meters to note down a bunch of coordinates takes hours! Someone had to do this though, because “my” isle – a piece of rock I randomly stumbled over after the latest server reset – was still missing! And while I clocked roughly ~700h on this game already I was not going to do that. I’m a programmer – which equals to lazy in my opinion. So I started scripting and after a few minutes came up with the following still crude solution:
echo "" > move.logwhile true; do gnome-screenshot -w -f /tmp/snapshot.png && convert /tmp/snapshot.png -crop 165x30+905+975 /tmp/snapshot-cropped.tiff && tesseract /tmp/snapshot-cropped.tiff - -l eng --psm 13 quiet | awk 'match($0, /([[:digit:]]+[.][[:digit:]])+.([[:digit:]]+[.][[:digit:]]+).([[:digit:]]+[.][[:digit:]]+)/) { print substr($0, RSTART, RLENGTH)}' | awk '{ printf "%0.0f,%0.0f,%0.0f\n", $1, $2, $3}' >> move.log sleep 2doneThis surely can be improved a lot but… minimum viable product. We’re still talking about a game. Here is what it does:
* Take a screenshot of the active window (Rising World while playing)
* Save it to /tmp (that’s in my RAM disk)
* Crop out the coordinates and convert it to tiff using `imagemagick`
* Run `tesseract` for OCR detection
* Pipe the result to awk and use a RegEx to identify three numbers
* Reformat the 3 numbers (remove the precision) and dump it in as csv-like log
* Sleep for 2 seconds and repeat until terminated
And in case you wonder why I used gnome-screenshot: I’m on #Wayland and the usual suspects written for X do simply not work. I did recompile gnome-screenshots tho to disable the annoying flashing though so it’s silent now.
Why the awk program? Well, tesseract is good but the raw data looked something like this in the end and the RegEx cleans that up somewhat:
serene ep)9295.2 95.4 2828.0 |9295.2 95.4 2828.0 |9296.4 95.4 2828.5 |nn9303.1 95.4 2838.5 |9295.0 98.4 2857.659289.1 98.7 2868.1 (79296.5 96.7 2849.0 |»9301.1 95.4 2835.5 |9301.1 95.4 2835.5 |nnSo I put this to a test and jogged around “my” isle and here are the results:
One(!) data point was misread during the ~15 minutes run. Not too shabby! That could easily be fixed manually and who knows… mebbe I’ll improve on the script to check for implausible spikes like that at some point.
I demoed the script to other players on the same server and some already started investigating into solutions to adapt this script to Windows. Just don’t ask me how to do that – I really wouldn’t know 😛
This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
#gamingonlinux #halftimber #linuxgaming #medieval #qgis #risingworld #timberframed #wayland
https://beko.famkos.net/2022/12/09/surveying-the-risingworld/
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With #RisingWorld (Unity) improving a lot lately we’re feature wise almost on par with the old Java version again. Due to my hobbies I’m playing on the #medieval server https://medievalrealms.co.uk/ where I usually construct buildings based on specific periods according to my understanding of timber-framed constructions. Which may not be the best to rely on but hey, it’s a game after all.
One of the features still missing is an ingame map. We do have the compass already though and with debug enabled we even get an exact position on the current map. And the new maps are huge! And since we’re building here in multiplayer it’s no wonder that this is a dire missed feature to get an idea where the others are and what they are building, because it’s not fun navigating with X,Y,Z alone to visit other players (and keep note of where the own spot is located).
So I was intrigued to see that the player @Bamse did what gamers tend to do when a feature is missing. They start some sort of helper app (or wiki or whatever). This resulted in a #QGIS Cloud map project at https://qgiscloud.com/Bamse/MapMedievalRealms/ where players from the same server may add POIs and do the leg work of surveying the “new” world.
The only drawback (haha. sorry.) is: It’s a PITA to do the surveying because stopping every few meters to note down a bunch of coordinates takes hours! Someone had to do this though, because “my” isle – a piece of rock I randomly stumbled over after the latest server reset – was still missing! And while I clocked roughly ~700h on this game already I was not going to do that. I’m a programmer – which equals to lazy in my opinion. So I started scripting and after a few minutes came up with the following still crude solution:
echo "" > move.logwhile true; do gnome-screenshot -w -f /tmp/snapshot.png && convert /tmp/snapshot.png -crop 165x30+905+975 /tmp/snapshot-cropped.tiff && tesseract /tmp/snapshot-cropped.tiff - -l eng --psm 13 quiet | awk 'match($0, /([[:digit:]]+[.][[:digit:]])+.([[:digit:]]+[.][[:digit:]]+).([[:digit:]]+[.][[:digit:]]+)/) { print substr($0, RSTART, RLENGTH)}' | awk '{ printf "%0.0f,%0.0f,%0.0f\n", $1, $2, $3}' >> move.log sleep 2doneThis surely can be improved a lot but… minimum viable product. We’re still talking about a game. Here is what it does:
* Take a screenshot of the active window (Rising World while playing)
* Save it to /tmp (that’s in my RAM disk)
* Crop out the coordinates and convert it to tiff using `imagemagick`
* Run `tesseract` for OCR detection
* Pipe the result to awk and use a RegEx to identify three numbers
* Reformat the 3 numbers (remove the precision) and dump it in as csv-like log
* Sleep for 2 seconds and repeat until terminated
And in case you wonder why I used gnome-screenshot: I’m on #Wayland and the usual suspects written for X do simply not work. I did recompile gnome-screenshots tho to disable the annoying flashing though so it’s silent now.
Why the awk program? Well, tesseract is good but the raw data looked something like this in the end and the RegEx cleans that up somewhat:
serene ep)9295.2 95.4 2828.0 |9295.2 95.4 2828.0 |9296.4 95.4 2828.5 |nn9303.1 95.4 2838.5 |9295.0 98.4 2857.659289.1 98.7 2868.1 (79296.5 96.7 2849.0 |»9301.1 95.4 2835.5 |9301.1 95.4 2835.5 |nnSo I put this to a test and jogged around “my” isle and here are the results:
One(!) data point was misread during the ~15 minutes run. Not too shabby! That could easily be fixed manually and who knows… mebbe I’ll improve on the script to check for implausible spikes like that at some point.
I demoed the script to other players on the same server and some already started investigating into solutions to adapt this script to Windows. Just don’t ask me how to do that – I really wouldn’t know 😛
This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
#gamingonlinux #halftimber #linuxgaming #medieval #qgis #risingworld #timberframed #wayland
https://beko.famkos.net/2022/12/09/surveying-the-risingworld/
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With #RisingWorld (Unity) improving a lot lately we’re feature wise almost on par with the old Java version again. Due to my hobbies I’m playing on the #medieval server https://medievalrealms.co.uk/ where I usually construct buildings based on specific periods according to my understanding of timber-framed constructions. Which may not be the best to rely on but hey, it’s a game after all.
One of the features still missing is an ingame map. We do have the compass already though and with debug enabled we even get an exact position on the current map. And the new maps are huge! And since we’re building here in multiplayer it’s no wonder that this is a dire missed feature to get an idea where the others are and what they are building, because it’s not fun navigating with X,Y,Z alone to visit other players (and keep note of where the own spot is located).
So I was intrigued to see that the player @Bamse did what gamers tend to do when a feature is missing. They start some sort of helper app (or wiki or whatever). This resulted in a #QGIS Cloud map project at https://qgiscloud.com/Bamse/MapMedievalRealms/ where players from the same server may add POIs and do the leg work of surveying the “new” world.
The only drawback (haha. sorry.) is: It’s a PITA to do the surveying because stopping every few meters to note down a bunch of coordinates takes hours! Someone had to do this though, because “my” isle – a piece of rock I randomly stumbled over after the latest server reset – was still missing! And while I clocked roughly ~700h on this game already I was not going to do that. I’m a programmer – which equals to lazy in my opinion. So I started scripting and after a few minutes came up with the following still crude solution:
echo "" > move.logwhile true; do gnome-screenshot -w -f /tmp/snapshot.png && convert /tmp/snapshot.png -crop 165x30+905+975 /tmp/snapshot-cropped.tiff && tesseract /tmp/snapshot-cropped.tiff - -l eng --psm 13 quiet | awk 'match($0, /([[:digit:]]+[.][[:digit:]])+.([[:digit:]]+[.][[:digit:]]+).([[:digit:]]+[.][[:digit:]]+)/) { print substr($0, RSTART, RLENGTH)}' | awk '{ printf "%0.0f,%0.0f,%0.0f\n", $1, $2, $3}' >> move.log sleep 2doneThis surely can be improved a lot but… minimum viable product. We’re still talking about a game. Here is what it does:
* Take a screenshot of the active window (Rising World while playing)
* Save it to /tmp (that’s in my RAM disk)
* Crop out the coordinates and convert it to tiff using `imagemagick`
* Run `tesseract` for OCR detection
* Pipe the result to awk and use a RegEx to identify three numbers
* Reformat the 3 numbers (remove the precision) and dump it in as csv-like log
* Sleep for 2 seconds and repeat until terminated
And in case you wonder why I used gnome-screenshot: I’m on #Wayland and the usual suspects written for X do simply not work. I did recompile gnome-screenshots tho to disable the annoying flashing though so it’s silent now.
Why the awk program? Well, tesseract is good but the raw data looked something like this in the end and the RegEx cleans that up somewhat:
serene ep)9295.2 95.4 2828.0 |9295.2 95.4 2828.0 |9296.4 95.4 2828.5 |nn9303.1 95.4 2838.5 |9295.0 98.4 2857.659289.1 98.7 2868.1 (79296.5 96.7 2849.0 |»9301.1 95.4 2835.5 |9301.1 95.4 2835.5 |nnSo I put this to a test and jogged around “my” isle and here are the results:
One(!) data point was misread during the ~15 minutes run. Not too shabby! That could easily be fixed manually and who knows… mebbe I’ll improve on the script to check for implausible spikes like that at some point.
I demoed the script to other players on the same server and some already started investigating into solutions to adapt this script to Windows. Just don’t ask me how to do that – I really wouldn’t know 😛
This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
#gamingonlinux #halftimber #linuxgaming #medieval #qgis #risingworld #timberframed #wayland
https://beko.famkos.net/2022/12/09/surveying-the-risingworld/
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With #RisingWorld (Unity) improving a lot lately we’re feature wise almost on par with the old Java version again. Due to my hobbies I’m playing on the #medieval server https://medievalrealms.co.uk/ where I usually construct buildings based on specific periods according to my understanding of timber-framed constructions. Which may not be the best to rely on but hey, it’s a game after all.
One of the features still missing is an ingame map. We do have the compass already though and with debug enabled we even get an exact position on the current map. And the new maps are huge! And since we’re building here in multiplayer it’s no wonder that this is a dire missed feature to get an idea where the others are and what they are building, because it’s not fun navigating with X,Y,Z alone to visit other players (and keep note of where the own spot is located).
So I was intrigued to see that the player @Bamse did what gamers tend to do when a feature is missing. They start some sort of helper app (or wiki or whatever). This resulted in a #QGIS Cloud map project at https://qgiscloud.com/Bamse/MapMedievalRealms/ where players from the same server may add POIs and do the leg work of surveying the “new” world.
The only drawback (haha. sorry.) is: It’s a PITA to do the surveying because stopping every few meters to note down a bunch of coordinates takes hours! Someone had to do this though, because “my” isle – a piece of rock I randomly stumbled over after the latest server reset – was still missing! And while I clocked roughly ~700h on this game already I was not going to do that. I’m a programmer – which equals to lazy in my opinion. So I started scripting and after a few minutes came up with the following still crude solution:
echo "" > move.logwhile true; do gnome-screenshot -w -f /tmp/snapshot.png && convert /tmp/snapshot.png -crop 165x30+905+975 /tmp/snapshot-cropped.tiff && tesseract /tmp/snapshot-cropped.tiff - -l eng --psm 13 quiet | awk 'match($0, /([[:digit:]]+[.][[:digit:]])+.([[:digit:]]+[.][[:digit:]]+).([[:digit:]]+[.][[:digit:]]+)/) { print substr($0, RSTART, RLENGTH)}' | awk '{ printf "%0.0f,%0.0f,%0.0f\n", $1, $2, $3}' >> move.log sleep 2doneThis surely can be improved a lot but… minimum viable product. We’re still talking about a game. Here is what it does:
* Take a screenshot of the active window (Rising World while playing)
* Save it to /tmp (that’s in my RAM disk)
* Crop out the coordinates and convert it to tiff using `imagemagick`
* Run `tesseract` for OCR detection
* Pipe the result to awk and use a RegEx to identify three numbers
* Reformat the 3 numbers (remove the precision) and dump it in as csv-like log
* Sleep for 2 seconds and repeat until terminated
And in case you wonder why I used gnome-screenshot: I’m on #Wayland and the usual suspects written for X do simply not work. I did recompile gnome-screenshots tho to disable the annoying flashing though so it’s silent now.
Why the awk program? Well, tesseract is good but the raw data looked something like this in the end and the RegEx cleans that up somewhat:
serene ep)9295.2 95.4 2828.0 |9295.2 95.4 2828.0 |9296.4 95.4 2828.5 |nn9303.1 95.4 2838.5 |9295.0 98.4 2857.659289.1 98.7 2868.1 (79296.5 96.7 2849.0 |»9301.1 95.4 2835.5 |9301.1 95.4 2835.5 |nnSo I put this to a test and jogged around “my” isle and here are the results:
One(!) data point was misread during the ~15 minutes run. Not too shabby! That could easily be fixed manually and who knows… mebbe I’ll improve on the script to check for implausible spikes like that at some point.
I demoed the script to other players on the same server and some already started investigating into solutions to adapt this script to Windows. Just don’t ask me how to do that – I really wouldn’t know 😛
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#gamingonlinux #halftimber #linuxgaming #medieval #qgis #risingworld #timberframed #wayland
https://beko.famkos.net/2022/12/09/surveying-the-risingworld/
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With #RisingWorld (Unity) improving a lot lately we’re feature wise almost on par with the old Java version again. Due to my hobbies I’m playing on the #medieval server https://medievalrealms.co.uk/ where I usually construct buildings based on specific periods according to my understanding of timber-framed constructions. Which may not be the best to rely on but hey, it’s a game after all.
One of the features still missing is an ingame map. We do have the compass already though and with debug enabled we even get an exact position on the current map. And the new maps are huge! And since we’re building here in multiplayer it’s no wonder that this is a dire missed feature to get an idea where the others are and what they are building, because it’s not fun navigating with X,Y,Z alone to visit other players (and keep note of where the own spot is located).
So I was intrigued to see that the player @Bamse did what gamers tend to do when a feature is missing. They start some sort of helper app (or wiki or whatever). This resulted in a #QGIS Cloud map project at https://qgiscloud.com/Bamse/MapMedievalRealms/ where players from the same server may add POIs and do the leg work of surveying the “new” world.
The only drawback (haha. sorry.) is: It’s a PITA to do the surveying because stopping every few meters to note down a bunch of coordinates takes hours! Someone had to do this though, because “my” isle – a piece of rock I randomly stumbled over after the latest server reset – was still missing! And while I clocked roughly ~700h on this game already I was not going to do that. I’m a programmer – which equals to lazy in my opinion. So I started scripting and after a few minutes came up with the following still crude solution:
echo "" > move.logwhile true; do gnome-screenshot -w -f /tmp/snapshot.png && convert /tmp/snapshot.png -crop 165x30+905+975 /tmp/snapshot-cropped.tiff && tesseract /tmp/snapshot-cropped.tiff - -l eng --psm 13 quiet | awk 'match($0, /([[:digit:]]+[.][[:digit:]])+.([[:digit:]]+[.][[:digit:]]+).([[:digit:]]+[.][[:digit:]]+)/) { print substr($0, RSTART, RLENGTH)}' | awk '{ printf "%0.0f,%0.0f,%0.0f\n", $1, $2, $3}' >> move.log sleep 2doneThis surely can be improved a lot but… minimum viable product. We’re still talking about a game. Here is what it does:
* Take a screenshot of the active window (Rising World while playing)
* Save it to /tmp (that’s in my RAM disk)
* Crop out the coordinates and convert it to tiff using `imagemagick`
* Run `tesseract` for OCR detection
* Pipe the result to awk and use a RegEx to identify three numbers
* Reformat the 3 numbers (remove the precision) and dump it in as csv-like log
* Sleep for 2 seconds and repeat until terminated
And in case you wonder why I used gnome-screenshot: I’m on #Wayland and the usual suspects written for X do simply not work. I did recompile gnome-screenshots tho to disable the annoying flashing though so it’s silent now.
Why the awk program? Well, tesseract is good but the raw data looked something like this in the end and the RegEx cleans that up somewhat:
serene ep)9295.2 95.4 2828.0 |9295.2 95.4 2828.0 |9296.4 95.4 2828.5 |nn9303.1 95.4 2838.5 |9295.0 98.4 2857.659289.1 98.7 2868.1 (79296.5 96.7 2849.0 |»9301.1 95.4 2835.5 |9301.1 95.4 2835.5 |nnSo I put this to a test and jogged around “my” isle and here are the results:
One(!) data point was misread during the ~15 minutes run. Not too shabby! That could easily be fixed manually and who knows… mebbe I’ll improve on the script to check for implausible spikes like that at some point.
I demoed the script to other players on the same server and some already started investigating into solutions to adapt this script to Windows. Just don’t ask me how to do that – I really wouldn’t know 😛
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#gamingonlinux #halftimber #linuxgaming #medieval #qgis #risingworld #timberframed #wayland
https://beko.famkos.net/2022/12/09/surveying-the-risingworld/
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Rather interesting article on the myth of reused ship timbers: https://triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/mediaeval-mythbusting-blog-13-ship-timbers/
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Re-Visited #CampusGalli mostly for the new barn that is almost finished by now. My last visit was in 2019. This time I took so many pictures that my battery drained 😆
https://beko.famkos.net/b/1jya
#experimentalArcheology #Halftimber #karolinger #timberframed
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Re-Visited #CampusGalli mostly for the new barn that is almost finished by now. My last visit was in 2019. This time I took so many pictures that my battery drained 😆
https://beko.famkos.net/b/1jya
#experimentalArcheology #Halftimber #karolinger #timberframed
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Campus Galli
Re-Visited Campus Galli in 88605 Meßkirch / Germany mostly for the new barn that is almost finished by now. My last visit was in 2019 so it was really time to see how much changed (despite the gorram pandemic). This time I took so many pictures that my battery drained.
Visitors aren’t allowed inside of the barn yet since it will be under construction until the end of the month. That was perfectly fine for me because catching the impression of the almost finished building is what I was after:
This cart also catched my attention so I checked it out closer. Spoiler: It doesn’t come with free rust proofer:
I consider myself lucky with the weather situation by the way. I could see a lot of systems that prevent flooding of the area in action – or not.
The orchard changed a lot since my last visit. The entrance for example is now completed.
Many trees were cut down for the constructions going on. Wood is needed everywhere and for everything on the site and some areas are becoming aerial.
The wooden church also got some changes. Most important the bell tower next to it and also a new porch. Couldn’t get enough of it.
All the other buildings required on a medieval construction site are also still there. Some show a lot of wear by now and constantly ongoing repairs are required.
The masons seem to be busy with a new arch. No idea where it will go tho 🤔 Their space doubles as a place to dry scales of wood in the attic.
This time I also managed to get pictures of some of the livestock!
This was a great day. Didn’t poke my nose outside much over the last year and I really missed excursion like this.
I also recorded some small video snippets so I may eventually come around creating a small video later too 🙂
This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
https://beko.famkos.net/2021/08/02/campus-galli-2/
#campusgalli #experimentalarcheology #Halftimber #karolinger #timberframed
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Campus Galli
Re-Visited Campus Galli in 88605 Meßkirch / Germany mostly for the new barn that is almost finished by now. My last visit was in 2019 so it was really time to see how much changed (despite the gorram pandemic). This time I took so many pictures that my battery drained.
Visitors aren’t allowed inside of the barn yet since it will be under construction until the end of the month. That was perfectly fine for me because catching the impression of the almost finished building is what I was after:
This cart also catched my attention so I checked it out closer. Spoiler: It doesn’t come with free rust proofer:
I consider myself lucky with the weather situation by the way. I could see a lot of systems that prevent flooding of the area in action – or not.
The orchard changed a lot since my last visit. The entrance for example is now completed.
Many trees were cut down for the constructions going on. Wood is needed everywhere and for everything on the site and some areas are becoming aerial.
The wooden church also got some changes. Most important the bell tower next to it and also a new porch. Couldn’t get enough of it.
All the other buildings required on a medieval construction site are also still there. Some show a lot of wear by now and constantly ongoing repairs are required.
The masons seem to be busy with a new arch. No idea where it will go tho 🤔 Their space doubles as a place to dry scales of wood in the attic.
This time I also managed to get pictures of some of the livestock!
This was a great day. Didn’t poke my nose outside much over the last year and I really missed excursion like this.
I also recorded some small video snippets so I may eventually come around creating a small video later too 🙂
This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
https://beko.famkos.net/2021/08/02/campus-galli-2/
#campusgalli #experimentalarcheology #Halftimber #karolinger #timberframed
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Campus Galli
Re-Visited Campus Galli in 88605 Meßkirch / Germany mostly for the new barn that is almost finished by now. My last visit was in 2019 so it was really time to see how much changed (despite the gorram pandemic). This time I took so many pictures that my battery drained.
Visitors aren’t allowed inside of the barn yet since it will be under construction until the end of the month. That was perfectly fine for me because catching the impression of the almost finished building is what I was after:
This cart also catched my attention so I checked it out closer. Spoiler: It doesn’t come with free rust proofer:
I consider myself lucky with the weather situation by the way. I could see a lot of systems that prevent flooding of the area in action – or not.
The orchard changed a lot since my last visit. The entrance for example is now completed.
Many trees were cut down for the constructions going on. Wood is needed everywhere and for everything on the site and some areas are becoming aerial.
The wooden church also got some changes. Most important the bell tower next to it and also a new porch. Couldn’t get enough of it.
All the other buildings required on a medieval construction site are also still there. Some show a lot of wear by now and constantly ongoing repairs are required.
The masons seem to be busy with a new arch. No idea where it will go tho 🤔 Their space doubles as a place to dry scales of wood in the attic.
This time I also managed to get pictures of some of the livestock!
This was a great day. Didn’t poke my nose outside much over the last year and I really missed excursion like this.
I also recorded some small video snippets so I may eventually come around creating a small video later too 🙂
This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
https://beko.famkos.net/2021/08/02/campus-galli-2/
#campusgalli #experimentalarcheology #Halftimber #karolinger #timberframed
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Campus Galli
Re-Visited Campus Galli in 88605 Meßkirch / Germany mostly for the new barn that is almost finished by now. My last visit was in 2019 so it was really time to see how much changed (despite the gorram pandemic). This time I took so many pictures that my battery drained.
Visitors aren’t allowed inside of the barn yet since it will be under construction until the end of the month. That was perfectly fine for me because catching the impression of the almost finished building is what I was after:
This cart also catched my attention so I checked it out closer. Spoiler: It doesn’t come with free rust proofer:
I consider myself lucky with the weather situation by the way. I could see a lot of systems that prevent flooding of the area in action – or not.
The orchard changed a lot since my last visit. The entrance for example is now completed.
Many trees were cut down for the constructions going on. Wood is needed everywhere and for everything on the site and some areas are becoming aerial.
The wooden church also got some changes. Most important the bell tower next to it and also a new porch. Couldn’t get enough of it.
All the other buildings required on a medieval construction site are also still there. Some show a lot of wear by now and constantly ongoing repairs are required.
The masons seem to be busy with a new arch. No idea where it will go tho 🤔 Their space doubles as a place to dry scales of wood in the attic.
This time I also managed to get pictures of some of the livestock!
This was a great day. Didn’t poke my nose outside much over the last year and I really missed excursion like this.
I also recorded some small video snippets so I may eventually come around creating a small video later too 🙂
This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
https://beko.famkos.net/2021/08/02/campus-galli-2/
#campusgalli #experimentalarcheology #Halftimber #karolinger #timberframed
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Campus Galli
Re-Visited Campus Galli in 88605 Meßkirch / Germany mostly for the new barn that is almost finished by now. My last visit was in 2019 so it was really time to see how much changed (despite the gorram pandemic). This time I took so many pictures that my battery drained.
Visitors aren’t allowed inside of the barn yet since it will be under construction until the end of the month. That was perfectly fine for me because catching the impression of the almost finished building is what I was after:
This cart also catched my attention so I checked it out closer. Spoiler: It doesn’t come with free rust proofer:
I consider myself lucky with the weather situation by the way. I could see a lot of systems that prevent flooding of the area in action – or not.
The orchard changed a lot since my last visit. The entrance for example is now completed.
Many trees were cut down for the constructions going on. Wood is needed everywhere and for everything on the site and some areas are becoming aerial.
The wooden church also got some changes. Most important the bell tower next to it and also a new porch. Couldn’t get enough of it.
All the other buildings required on a medieval construction site are also still there. Some show a lot of wear by now and constantly ongoing repairs are required.
The masons seem to be busy with a new arch. No idea where it will go tho 🤔 Their space doubles as a place to dry scales of wood in the attic.
This time I also managed to get pictures of some of the livestock!
This was a great day. Didn’t poke my nose outside much over the last year and I really missed excursion like this.
I also recorded some small video snippets so I may eventually come around creating a small video later too 🙂
This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
https://beko.famkos.net/2021/08/02/campus-galli-2/
#campusgalli #experimentalarcheology #Halftimber #karolinger #timberframed
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Here is my take on a mediaeval postmill 🙂
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🤩 Please keep posting all the cool pictures. It’s the only way for me (here on the continent) to learn more about the awesome hall houses of Medieval England.
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Medieval barn 1379
Medieval barn dating to 1379 - yes please :D
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Waldenbuch
Visited the Museum Of Everyday Life in Castle Waldenbuch and ogled the #LivingHistory groups Family Swevia and Reisecen. Also got to see some nice #Halftimber
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Visited the Museum Of Everyday Life in Castle Waldenbuch 71111 / Germany. This town is known for it’s chocolate factory of Ritter Sport but it does indeed have a very nice medieaval town core – timber-framed buildings included.
The museum itself is simply great. The place is huge and there is so much to see. It was also a great place for the kids who in opposition to usual museum trips did not just run from room to room. The exhibits really catched their attention and we spent a surprisingly long time inside.
My personal highlight was the opportunity to see the Family Swevia and Reisecen live showcasing their deeds. Two great living history groups that really do put a lot of effort and research in their presentations.
- Turned-over shoe
- Kemp for sewing leather
- Beeswax candle making
- Cooking Box
- Riveted chainmail
- Turned-over shoe
https://www.familia-swevia.de/
https://www.museum-der-alltagskultur.de/
https://www.waldenbuch.de/zielgruppen+englisch/home.html
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Visited the Museum Of Everyday Life in Castle Waldenbuch 71111 / Germany. This town is known for it’s chocolate factory of Ritter Sport but it does indeed have a very nice medieaval town core – timber-framed buildings included.
The museum itself is simply great. The place is huge and there is so much to see. It was also a great place for the kids who in opposition to usual museum trips did not just run from room to room. The exhibits really catched their attention and we spent a surprisingly long time inside.
My personal highlight was the opportunity to see the Family Swevia and Reisecen live showcasing their deeds. Two great living history groups that really do put a lot of effort and research in their presentations.
- Turned-over shoe
- Kemp for sewing leather
- Beeswax candle making
- Cooking Box
- Riveted chainmail
- Turned-over shoe
https://www.familia-swevia.de/
https://www.museum-der-alltagskultur.de/
https://www.waldenbuch.de/zielgruppen+englisch/home.html
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Visited the Museum Of Everyday Life in Castle Waldenbuch 71111 / Germany. This town is known for it’s chocolate factory of Ritter Sport but it does indeed have a very nice medieaval town core – timber-framed buildings included.
The museum itself is simply great. The place is huge and there is so much to see. It was also a great place for the kids who in opposition to usual museum trips did not just run from room to room. The exhibits really catched their attention and we spent a surprisingly long time inside.
My personal highlight was the opportunity to see the Family Swevia and Reisecen live showcasing their deeds. Two great living history groups that really do put a lot of effort and research in their presentations.
- Turned-over shoe
- Kemp for sewing leather
- Beeswax candle making
- Cooking Box
- Riveted chainmail
- Turned-over shoe
https://www.familia-swevia.de/
https://www.museum-der-alltagskultur.de/
https://www.waldenbuch.de/zielgruppen+englisch/home.html
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Visited the Museum Of Everyday Life in Castle Waldenbuch 71111 / Germany. This town is known for it’s chocolate factory of Ritter Sport but it does indeed have a very nice medieaval town core – timber-framed buildings included.
The museum itself is simply great. The place is huge and there is so much to see. It was also a great place for the kids who in opposition to usual museum trips did not just run from room to room. The exhibits really catched their attention and we spent a surprisingly long time inside.
My personal highlight was the opportunity to see the Family Swevia and Reisecen live showcasing their deeds. Two great living history groups that really do put a lot of effort and research in their presentations.
- Turned-over shoe
- Kemp for sewing leather
- Beeswax candle making
- Cooking Box
- Riveted chainmail
- Turned-over shoe
https://www.familia-swevia.de/
https://www.museum-der-alltagskultur.de/
https://www.waldenbuch.de/zielgruppen+englisch/home.html
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We revisited Schiltach 77761 / Germany today and this time we were lucky. The Schüttesäge museum was open just as advertised. It’s free to visit and has a donation box.
Beside the framesaw and it’s water mills it also shows the history of Timber Rafting and Tanning in the area. A really small but nice museum.
After some refreshments – it was a very warm day this time – we moved over to the city museum that had a lot of stuff that could be touched or experimented with. A lot of fun for the kids. It also hosts a tiny library with books about the town – including several well known books about half timber by e.g. Manfred Gerner. This one is also free and has a donation box.
One of the most fascinating items on display is the model of the former “Zum Adler” inn (1604), that can be seen from the window of the museum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schüttesäge_Museum
https://www.schiltach.de/en/Home
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We revisited Schiltach 77761 / Germany today and this time we were lucky. The Schüttesäge museum was open just as advertised. It’s free to visit and has a donation box.
Beside the framesaw and it’s water mills it also shows the history of Timber Rafting and Tanning in the area. A really small but nice museum.
After some refreshments – it was a very warm day this time – we moved over to the city museum that had a lot of stuff that could be touched or experimented with. A lot of fun for the kids. It also hosts a tiny library with books about the town – including several well known books about half timber by e.g. Manfred Gerner. This one is also free and has a donation box.
One of the most fascinating items on display is the model of the former “Zum Adler” inn (1604), that can be seen from the window of the museum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schüttesäge_Museum
https://www.schiltach.de/en/Home
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We revisited Schiltach 77761 / Germany today and this time we were lucky. The Schüttesäge museum was open just as advertised. It’s free to visit and has a donation box.
Beside the framesaw and it’s water mills it also shows the history of Timber Rafting and Tanning in the area. A really small but nice museum.
After some refreshments – it was a very warm day this time – we moved over to the city museum that had a lot of stuff that could be touched or experimented with. A lot of fun for the kids. It also hosts a tiny library with books about the town – including several well known books about half timber by e.g. Manfred Gerner. This one is also free and has a donation box.
One of the most fascinating items on display is the model of the former “Zum Adler” inn (1604), that can be seen from the window of the museum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schüttesäge_Museum
https://www.schiltach.de/en/Home
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We revisited Schiltach 77761 / Germany today and this time we were lucky. The Schüttesäge museum was open just as advertised. It’s free to visit and has a donation box.
Beside the framesaw and it’s water mills it also shows the history of Timber Rafting and Tanning in the area. A really small but nice museum.
After some refreshments – it was a very warm day this time – we moved over to the city museum that had a lot of stuff that could be touched or experimented with. A lot of fun for the kids. It also hosts a tiny library with books about the town – including several well known books about half timber by e.g. Manfred Gerner. This one is also free and has a donation box.
One of the most fascinating items on display is the model of the former “Zum Adler” inn (1604), that can be seen from the window of the museum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schüttesäge_Museum
https://www.schiltach.de/en/Home
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Current read: Timber Framed Buildings Explained
That’d be my latest bible on #timberframed / #halftimber [for Britain] by Trevor Yorke. £7.95 / ISBN 978-1-84674-220-0 / Timber Framed Buildings Explained specially for my current interest in traditional hall houses.
https://beko.famkos.net/2019/07/05/timber-framed-buildings-explained/
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Current read: Timber Framed Buildings Explained
That’d be my latest bible on #timberframed / #halftimber [for Britain] by Trevor Yorke. £7.95 / ISBN 978-1-84674-220-0 / Timber Framed Buildings Explained specially for my current interest in traditional hall houses.
https://beko.famkos.net/2019/07/05/timber-framed-buildings-explained/
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Current read: Timber Framed Buildings Explained
That’d be my latest bible on #timberframed / #halftimber [for Britain] by Trevor Yorke. £7.95 / ISBN 978-1-84674-220-0 / Timber Framed Buildings Explained specially for my current interest in traditional hall houses.
https://beko.famkos.net/2019/07/05/timber-framed-buildings-explained/
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Timber Framed Buildings Explained
Current read: Timber Framed Buildings Explained
That’d be my latest bible on #timberframed / #halftimber [for Britain] by Trevor Yorke. £7.95 / ISBN 978-1-84674-220-0 / Timber Framed Buildings Explained specially for my current interest in traditional hall houses.
https://beko.famkos.net/2019/07/05/timber-framed-buildings-explained/
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Current read: Timber Framed Buildings Explained
That’d be my latest bible on #timberframed / #halftimber [for Britain] by Trevor Yorke. £7.95 / ISBN 978-1-84674-220-0 / Timber Framed Buildings Explained specially for my current interest in traditional hall houses.
https://beko.famkos.net/2019/07/05/timber-framed-buildings-explained/
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Visited the museum of local history in Dornstetten 72280 / Germany, that is part of the “German Timber-Frame Road”. Didn’t look like much from the outside but I was very wrong on this. It’s located in the old tithe and fruit barn of this former administrative city.
The place itself was first mentioned in 767 AD in the Lorsch Codex and became a city in the 12th century and even gained the right to hold markets later on.
The museum stretches over three floors of the two restored barn buildings and has a lot of stuff from various periods on display. So much can be seen that it’s opening times of just 2.5h are simply not enough to take a closer look at everything.
The medieaval part is – as usually – of more interest for me but I really enjoyed the other displays as well. Especially since we were basically just 3 visitors so we got an extended tour with lots of background information for free. Well, I donated some money later, of course 🙂
- The tithe and fruit barn by Eleonore Kötter
- Historic Town Seals of Dornstetten from 1276 to 1508
- Dornstetten 1836
- The Holy Grale of Cities in the 13th century: Stadtluft, Hirsebrei und Bettelmönch (ISBN 978-3806210590)
I was especially happy to find my holy grale of cities in the 13th century on display: Stadtluft, Hirsebrei und Bettelmönch (ISBN 978-3806210590).
https://www.dornstetten.de/gaeste/museen/heimatmuseum-dornstetten-id_264/
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Visited the museum of local history in Dornstetten 72280 / Germany, that is part of the “German Timber-Frame Road”. Didn’t look like much from the outside but I was very wrong on this. It’s located in the old tithe and fruit barn of this former administrative city.
The place itself was first mentioned in 767 AD in the Lorsch Codex and became a city in the 12th century and even gained the right to hold markets later on.
The museum stretches over three floors of the two restored barn buildings and has a lot of stuff from various periods on display. So much can be seen that it’s opening times of just 2.5h are simply not enough to take a closer look at everything.
The medieaval part is – as usually – of more interest for me but I really enjoyed the other displays as well. Especially since we were basically just 3 visitors so we got an extended tour with lots of background information for free. Well, I donated some money later, of course 🙂
- The tithe and fruit barn by Eleonore Kötter
- Historic Town Seals of Dornstetten from 1276 to 1508
- Dornstetten 1836
- The Holy Grale of Cities in the 13th century: Stadtluft, Hirsebrei und Bettelmönch (ISBN 978-3806210590)
I was especially happy to find my holy grale of cities in the 13th century on display: Stadtluft, Hirsebrei und Bettelmönch (ISBN 978-3806210590).
https://www.dornstetten.de/gaeste/museen/heimatmuseum-dornstetten-id_264/
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Visited the museum of local history in Dornstetten 72280 / Germany, that is part of the “German Timber-Frame Road”. Didn’t look like much from the outside but I was very wrong on this. It’s located in the old tithe and fruit barn of this former administrative city.
The place itself was first mentioned in 767 AD in the Lorsch Codex and became a city in the 12th century and even gained the right to hold markets later on.
The museum stretches over three floors of the two restored barn buildings and has a lot of stuff from various periods on display. So much can be seen that it’s opening times of just 2.5h are simply not enough to take a closer look at everything.
The medieaval part is – as usually – of more interest for me but I really enjoyed the other displays as well. Especially since we were basically just 3 visitors so we got an extended tour with lots of background information for free. Well, I donated some money later, of course 🙂
- The tithe and fruit barn by Eleonore Kötter
- Historic Town Seals of Dornstetten from 1276 to 1508
- Dornstetten 1836
- The Holy Grale of Cities in the 13th century: Stadtluft, Hirsebrei und Bettelmönch (ISBN 978-3806210590)
I was especially happy to find my holy grale of cities in the 13th century on display: Stadtluft, Hirsebrei und Bettelmönch (ISBN 978-3806210590).
https://www.dornstetten.de/gaeste/museen/heimatmuseum-dornstetten-id_264/
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Visited the museum of local history in Dornstetten 72280 / Germany, that is part of the “German Timber-Frame Road”. Didn’t look like much from the outside but I was very wrong on this. It’s located in the old tithe and fruit barn of this former administrative city.
The place itself was first mentioned in 767 AD in the Lorsch Codex and became a city in the 12th century and even gained the right to hold markets later on.
The museum stretches over three floors of the two restored barn buildings and has a lot of stuff from various periods on display. So much can be seen that it’s opening times of just 2.5h are simply not enough to take a closer look at everything.
The medieaval part is – as usually – of more interest for me but I really enjoyed the other displays as well. Especially since we were basically just 3 visitors so we got an extended tour with lots of background information for free. Well, I donated some money later, of course 🙂
- The tithe and fruit barn by Eleonore Kötter
- Historic Town Seals of Dornstetten from 1276 to 1508
- Dornstetten 1836
- The Holy Grale of Cities in the 13th century: Stadtluft, Hirsebrei und Bettelmönch (ISBN 978-3806210590)
I was especially happy to find my holy grale of cities in the 13th century on display: Stadtluft, Hirsebrei und Bettelmönch (ISBN 978-3806210590).
https://www.dornstetten.de/gaeste/museen/heimatmuseum-dornstetten-id_264/
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Visited the museum of local history in Dornstetten 72280 / Germany, that is part of the “German Timber-Frame Road”. Didn’t look like much from the outside but I was very wrong on this. It’s located in the old tithe and fruit barn of this former administrative city.
The place itself was first mentioned in 767 AD in the Lorsch Codex and became a city in the 12th century and even gained the right to hold markets later on.
The museum stretches over three floors of the two restored barn buildings and has a lot of stuff from various periods on display. So much can be seen that it’s opening times of just 2.5h are simply not enough to take a closer look at everything.
The medieaval part is – as usually – of more interest for me but I really enjoyed the other displays as well. Especially since we were basically just 3 visitors so we got an extended tour with lots of background information for free. Well, I donated some money later, of course 🙂
- The tithe and fruit barn by Eleonore Kötter
- Historic Town Seals of Dornstetten from 1276 to 1508
- Dornstetten 1836
- The Holy Grale of Cities in the 13th century: Stadtluft, Hirsebrei und Bettelmönch (ISBN 978-3806210590)
I was especially happy to find my holy grale of cities in the 13th century on display: Stadtluft, Hirsebrei und Bettelmönch (ISBN 978-3806210590).
https://www.dornstetten.de/gaeste/museen/heimatmuseum-dornstetten-id_264/
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Castle researcher Konrad Koch
Konrad A. Koch was an artist who lived from 1869 to 1945. He is also known for his #castle drawings showing how castles may have looked like - and modern recreations back his ideas. Thanks to Peter Wagner we now have a biography of his live and work.
https://beko.famkos.net/2019/05/17/castle-researcher-konrad-koch/
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Castle researcher Konrad Koch
Konrad A. Koch was an artist who lived from 1869 to 1945. He is also known for his #castle drawings showing how castles may have looked like - and modern recreations back his ideas. Thanks to Peter Wagner we now have a biography of his live and work.
https://beko.famkos.net/2019/05/17/castle-researcher-konrad-koch/
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Castle researcher Konrad Koch
Konrad A. Koch was an artist who lived from 1869 to 1945. He is also known for his #castle drawings showing how castles may have looked like - and modern recreations back his ideas. Thanks to Peter Wagner we now have a biography of his live and work.
https://beko.famkos.net/2019/05/17/castle-researcher-konrad-koch/
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Castle researcher Konrad Koch
Konrad A. Koch was an artist who lived from 1869 to 1945. He is also known for his #castle drawings showing how castles may have looked like - and modern recreations back his ideas. Thanks to Peter Wagner we now have a biography of his live and work.
https://beko.famkos.net/2019/05/17/castle-researcher-konrad-koch/
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Castle researcher Konrad Koch
Konrad A. Koch was an artist who lived from 1869 to 1945. He is also known for his #castle drawings showing how castles may have looked like - and modern recreations back his ideas. Thanks to Peter Wagner we now have a biography of his live and work.
https://beko.famkos.net/2019/05/17/castle-researcher-konrad-koch/
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Castle researcher Konrad Koch
Visited Dornstetten 72280 / Germany, that is part of the “German Timber-Frame Road”, for a lecture about Konrad Albert Koch held at the museum of local history (and that’s worth another visit).
Koch was an artist who lived from 1869 to 1945. He spent most of his life travelling to dozends of churches in the area to restore or paint various frescous and paintings. Not much of his work is wildly known but since a common scene on all of his pictures was discovered more and more work of him shows up nowdays.
We learnt all this from the speaker Peter Wagner, who invited to the lecture. A lot of the work of Koch can be found in his book “Der Burgenforscher Konrad Albert Koch” (The castle researcher / ISBN 978-3920801-93-3).
The more important part for us however is that Koch also started to paint castles and keeps – or what was left of them. Over time he got such a good understanding of medieaval structures that he started to draw castles how they might have looked like based on excavated ruins. People began to show up and helped to dig whenever Koch was in the area and his drawings became very popular. And they still are, in fact. Many of his pictures are still used to show how castles looked like on various historic sites.
And here is an interesting fact: Many of the castles and keeps were virtually recreated again using modern high-tech and latest archaeological insights. And many look very close to how Koch imagined them back then. And that’s from a time when the railroad was still on the raise and the choice of travelling was to trek or walk.
The pictures are from the beautiful market place of Dornstetten where we spent some time waiting for the beginning of the lecture.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Albert_Koch
https://beko.famkos.net/2019/05/17/castle-researcher-konrad-koch/
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Castle researcher Konrad Koch
Visited Dornstetten 72280 / Germany, that is part of the “German Timber-Frame Road”, for a lecture about Konrad Albert Koch held at the museum of local history (and that’s worth another visit).
Koch was an artist who lived from 1869 to 1945. He spent most of his life travelling to dozends of churches in the area to restore or paint various frescous and paintings. Not much of his work is wildly known but since a common scene on all of his pictures was discovered more and more work of him shows up nowdays.
We learnt all this from the speaker Peter Wagner, who invited to the lecture. A lot of the work of Koch can be found in his book “Der Burgenforscher Konrad Albert Koch” (The castle researcher / ISBN 978-3920801-93-3).
The more important part for us however is that Koch also started to paint castles and keeps – or what was left of them. Over time he got such a good understanding of medieaval structures that he started to draw castles how they might have looked like based on excavated ruins. People began to show up and helped to dig whenever Koch was in the area and his drawings became very popular. And they still are, in fact. Many of his pictures are still used to show how castles looked like on various historic sites.
And here is an interesting fact: Many of the castles and keeps were virtually recreated again using modern high-tech and latest archaeological insights. And many look very close to how Koch imagined them back then. And that’s from a time when the railroad was still on the raise and the choice of travelling was to trek or walk.
The pictures are from the beautiful market place of Dornstetten where we spent some time waiting for the beginning of the lecture.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Albert_Koch
https://beko.famkos.net/2019/05/17/castle-researcher-konrad-koch/