As if to test some theories of mine, a doppelganger evil alternate universe Flamingo has been placed on South Beach. Worse still, there is no User or Model information given – it is a mystery block.
I read on more than one help forum: this meant it was built by the Google Warehouse Team itself.
I discovered this Imposter when I finally cleaned up and submitted my Flamingo model, and when i viewed it in GE, there was another building already there.
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| THE FLAMINGO TOWERS (FORMERLY MORTON TOWERS,) SOUTH BEACH, MIAMI USA |
So as in the case of the Flyte building and the Cornish Building, it is let the best model win. Where best = the most accurate and convincing rendering, with the lowest polygon count. And frankly, I didn't spare too many polygons when building that crown (you can see in the doppelganger's that it is one image, and not actual polygon.) But my flamingo is more correct in scale I think, and the details are better. Except that part by the tennis court and this othr one or two things.
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| Vertical black window bank above parking lot stops at building roofline. |
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| Take a look at the crown, and also Vertical black window bank above parking lot stops goes above building roofline. which may be correct. |
There are also some other inconsistances, but mine has a few squirrely parts also.
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| Note the entrance. again, more polygons. |
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| Their entrance: flat image. |
I do like the brightness of their model, but i think that is the difference in a preview model and a model actually seen live in GE.
It may not be a tough call for the GE team. I think Low Polygon is pretty important to them. If so, then I can make the changes, I have a lot of more correct and better fitted images on mine.
Of course, the paranoid in me thinks : did the GE team see this blog and beat me to the completion? Flamingo was a huge hole in the southbeach skyline for so long, it seems like a coincidence. There is a link to this on many of my models i submit to the warehouse, and it makes sense that they would check up on the content.
This is someone else's attempt to model the Flamingo:
