12-01-2011, 01:42 PM
MountainMan Wrote:Surprisingly, the most basic concept in this discussion appears to have been completely ignored. Let's call it "matching expectations to reality", or some other PC label for the moment.
Also known as "compressive selection" (see Byron's blog posts above) - choose to model smaller scenes and objects, instead of applying extreme "selective compression" to larger scenes and objects. Or as Reinhard formulated it in one of his posts above : "careful selection [is] an alternative to selective compression".
Going back in time is certainly one very valid way of doing that - to the times when cars were shorter, engines smaller, and labor cost lower, so more traffic was in short trains and single car switching.
Smile,
Stein