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Ruins - Aviation Style

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Ruin porn is a reference used by urban planners, particularly in Detroit, that describes a fascination with abandoned buildings. http://www.theatlant...-ruin-porn/886/

 

Anyway, I came across a couple sites with lots of pics from abandoned airfields and I thought some may be interested.

 

http://weburbanist.c...raft-airplanes/

 

http://www.urbanghos...port-terminals/

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Nice links.

 

Imagine what those places were like when they were alive and kicking.

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Dave Opper

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Great Pics Mate....I am a huge fan of Ruin Porn so these Aviation links are great.

 

Cheers

Matthew Kane

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It kind of gives me a weird nostalgic feeling looking at these pics of places that once held much glory and purpose, and now sit in ruin. Thanks for sharing these links!

Sincerely,

Chase 

 

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Never heard it called 'ruin porn' before. Dereliction definitely does have aesthetic & emotional appeal though. For fans, the following link is the ultimate aim though...

 

http://tour2chernobyl.com/

 

A whole town!

Great subject material with incredible pictures, however I altered the title of this thread. We don't need a pornea based word showing up in the search engines pointing at AVSIM.

 

Kind regards,

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Some of those buildings would make for great textures if your into modeling. Lot's of character. "One man's trash is....

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Some of those buildings would make for great textures if your into modeling. Lot's of character. "One man's trash is....

Indeed they would. The Valve Software team used stuff like this for texturing much of the Ravenholme level in Half-Life 2. Just out of curiosity I pulled a large chunk of that level out as a single giant .obj format model, and you could see from the associated texture files that they'd been around a lot of old, wrecked places with a camera gathering graphic material for it.

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