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This article was taken from the March 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online.
Victor Enrich finds most
architecture pretty mundane -- so he decided to turn existing buildings into photorealistic fantasies. The 33-year-old starts by taking a photo of a real-world structure. He then turns that two-dimensional image into a 3D model of the building with Autodesk's 3ds Max Design software, using information culled from satellite photos, building plans and emporis.com, which collates data on building projects worldwide. Next he recreates the textures of the building and the environmental lighting. "Once I've got the building in my hands, I can start playing with it," he says. "Every building in the end has simple transformations: bending or twisting elements." It takes Enrich a month to create one of his surreal reimaginings. "I have a big inner world," he says. "And I'm sharing it with the outer world."
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