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zwitschi 2614d259aa feat(facades): 0.1.6 retail frontage first pass — Lee Drug and 6806-6820
Models the two retail buildings beside the hero from their own photograph rather
than the generic kit: bronze cornice, mural row, lettering band, stepped Deco
parapet and rounded corner tower on 6800 Lee Drug; burgundy fascia, pilasters,
white-framed windows and banded parapet on 6806-6820. Reference analysis written
before any geometry (Art/blender/retail/ref-analysis.md), every unmeasured
proportion carried into the part report as an assumption.

6822 Budget is deferred, not guessed: no photograph of it exists and the 6.0 x 5.5 m
sliver cannot be read out of the neighbour shot.

Pipeline fixes found on the way:
- render_screenshots.sh called ./Engine/... for the capture step while every
  commandlet used the absolute path; set -e killed the script at 127 *after* the
  maps were rebuilt, so screenshots silently stayed a day old.
- the facade kit applies to every Frontage_*/North_* actor, so it pasted its own
  language over the new modelled facades; it now skips them, and the trim stages as
  RetailTrim_*.
- pure bay arithmetic moved to Tools/_common.py so it is unit-testable without
  Blender (4 new tests, 82 total pass).

Known gaps recorded in Screenshots/README.md, not hidden: the parapet reads as a
blank band, murals and lettering do not resolve at review distance, the tower is a
plain cylinder, and the review camera crops the east end.
2026-11-09 09:10:49 +01:00

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Reference analysis — retail frontage, 0.1.6

Phase 0 of the references pack (reference-image-match). Written before any geometry, because the pass that produced the hero façade skipped it and cost two rebuilds.

Source

Image Art/reference/retail-neighbours/01-lee-drug-and-neighbor.jpg (1920×953)
Author / licence Gb321, own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 — attribution required
Captured 2024-07-19 11:11 local
Description "Lee Drug and 6806 Hollywood Buildings in Hollywood"
Coverage Both target buildings in one frame, mid-morning sun from the south-east

One photograph is the whole evidence base for 6800 and 6806–6820. It is a street-level oblique, not an elevation: verticals converge, the ground floor of 6806–6820 is partly behind a parked car, and the Lee Drug shopfront is behind a bus. Everything below that the photo does not resolve is marked assumed and is carried into the part report.

6822 Budget has no photograph. It is a 6.0 m × 5.5 m single-storey sliver west of 6806–6820, and the TODO item already records that Commons has nothing usable. It stays a blockout extrusion and the item is deferred rather than guessed.

Measured (not from the photo)

From Geo/raw/osm-api-map-2026-11-06.osm and the blockout, in the shared frame (metres, X east, Y north, Z from the project datum):

Building OSM way X Front face Y Height Depth
6800 Lee Drug 424024149 −33.20 … −14.37 −14.63 12.10 m 33.5 m
6806–6820 424024150 −66.08 … −33.07 −12.52 12.10 m 30.8 m
6822 Budget 424024144 −78.54 … −72.52 −12.92 5.50 m 15.4 m

Both target buildings are 12.10 m tall, which makes the relative proportions in the photo directly usable: the parapet line, the cornice and the shopfront line can be read as fractions of the frame height.

6800 Lee Drug — reading

Category Observation
Subject Corner retail block at Hollywood × Highland; the street face and the corner return are both visible
Silhouette Long low box, broken by a rounded corner tower that rises above the frontage parapet; the parapet is stepped, not flat
Storeys Two zones, not storeys: a tall shopfront zone and a single tall display wall above it
Proportion (vertical) Shopfront ≈ 0 → 0.36 H; bronze cornice ≈ 0.36 → 0.43 H; mural + lettering wall ≈ 0.43 → 0.82 H; stepped parapet ≈ 0.82 → 1.0 H (assumed split; read off the frame, ±0.03 H)
Proportion (horizontal) Corner tower occupies ≈ 4 m of the east end; eight mural panels at roughly 2.2 m centres along the frontage
Colour Cream stucco wall #EDE6D8, bronze/brown cornice #6B4A2F, near-black mural plates #1C1A18, dark glazing #20262A (sampled from the frame)
Unique features Stepped Deco parapet with 4 horizontal reveal lines; projecting bronze cornice; row of black celebrity-portrait panels; large dark "SOUVENIRS OF …" lettering on the upper wall; shopfront glazing with slim mullions
Mood 1930s Deco retail, freshly painted, bright midday

6806–6820 — reading

Category Observation
Silhouette Flat-fronted two-storey block; parapet steps up in fins at the west end
Proportion (vertical) Shopfront ≈ 0 → 0.32 H; burgundy fascia band ≈ 0.32 → 0.38 H; window storey ≈ 0.38 → 0.62 H; blank wall + parapet ≈ 0.62 → 1.0 H (assumed)
Horizontal Brown pilaster strips divide the frontage into roughly 3 m bays; seven upper windows across 33 m
Colour Same cream stucco; brown pilasters #6B4A2F; burgundy-green fascia #5B3A3A; white window frames
Unique features Banded parapet with 3 reveal lines; white-framed upper windows with security bars; shopfront glazing behind a burgundy fascia

Camera match (for the review shot)

The photo is a street-level oblique from the north side looking south-east, subject filling ~80 % of the frame width. The demo review shot must reproduce that: camera at 1.7 m on the north sidewalk, yaw toward the south frontage, 35–42° lens, both buildings in frame. A wide block view will not compare usefully against this crop.

Assumptions to carry into the model report

  1. Vertical proportions, as above — the photo's convergence makes a pixel-perfect read impossible.
  2. Mural panel size and spacing; the lettering is modelled as a recessed plate, not as text.
  3. Shopfront bay spacing on both buildings; the bus hides most of Lee Drug's ground floor.
  4. Parapet reveal line count (4 on Lee Drug, 3 on 6806–6820).
  5. Corner tower radius; only the outer curve is visible.