“Seven first-floor rooms on a city lot” boasts a headline in the February 1952 issue of Better Homes & Gardens. The Five Star Home Plan Service gave post-war families access to plans, specifications, a contractor-and-owner agreement, and a cost-finding list of materials—all through the mail.
Back then you would have to enclose $5 in a postal money order to the magazine to build from these plans. Today, @TheOnlyAaron can model Five Star Home No. 2202 in a scant couple of hours!
Tune in to see real-time 3D modeling of 72-year-old architectural plans. By the end, Aaron will have a house that “doesn’t look conspicuous in a conservative neighborhood.”
Here’s the article and plan he’ll be working from:
Technical problems with the stream. @TheOnlyAaron struggled with it but after an hour the issues were too much and the stream was abandoned - it is going to be re-scheduled for next Friday when I believe it will be started from scratch rather than where he valiantly got to.
The irony of a 1950s analog design being beset by 21st century digital issues could well be the cause of the first wormhole, or possible evidence of the time travelers conundrum.
Aaron’s modeling computer was working ok, but the machine that looks after the streaming had problems. We were seeing very few frames per second. They do have a few days to get a new computer working well.
Yeah, as Colin said, it was the streaming machine that had an issue… going to work on it this week and get a solution set up so we can try it again! This time with MORE than three frames per minute!!
