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Carlton, Thanks for your thoughtful response. This is an important topic for our work. >>Then to be able to imply depth through lighting, parallax of objects in the scene during a walk through<< I think you will find that the viewer will get a feel of the mass and volume if the virtual model is animated. Is it true that the real reason you create virtual model is that it is simply easier… If you could create an accurate representation of your complicated twisting paths wouldnt be better as a physical model? (If it was just as easy to make) I appreciate your comments about your design process. I think you are giving the human creativity the credit, the computer system is simply a mirror and recorder of the human creativity. >> Sometimes people are so amazed to see the animation that they are blinded by the technology<< And the viewer may have loved the presentation, but still doses not understand the project. Simplicity has its place. I was just talking with an architect about photo realistic renderings vs. simple study models. He preferred the simple over the detailed, his reasoning was, the viewer would miss the beauty of the over-all design. With the detail the viewer may get hung up on the height of the door knobs, etc. Again I think the reason we make virtual models is that they are cheaper to build. And we sacrifice some thing for that. Scott Gaul