a hall on the plan, drawn by the kit from its hall class: red-brown lacquer, grey tile (the rule)
the eave band: bracket sets on the large halls, a painted beam on the small
assumed: a hall with no block on the plan, paler
paved courts between the halls (assumed, C)
Xiyang Lou: the stone kit, white marble frame, grey brick, glazed roofs
glazed roofs where a source says so
A
B: a block on the plan S01, until Q2 is settled
C: a guess. The kit's roofs and openings take the grade of their form: C where it is the class's
ground: level, the plain from today's 30 m DEM (C) hills by the grade of their height
assumed hill: no hill drawn, free land where the 1744 album rings the scenes with hills stone bank
paths of 1860: traced on the plan, or drawn on the 1744 leaves
assumed path (C): added only so that a hall can be reached
covered gallery 游廊, a simple roof on posts landing
boat route on the water (dashed)
planting of 1860 where a source names it for the scene: pines, willows, broadleaf trees, blossom, bamboo; lotus and reeds on the water. No plan draws a plant: every place is generated
rockeries and garden rocks where a text or a leaf names them; size typology (C)
plants by the grade of their species the fill: what no source names (assumed)
water land hills
Positions from a Qing plan (S01, image courtesy of the Princeton University Art Museum); heights and roofs are typology, and the halls are drawn by a kit from their hall class unless a source gives their own figures, ground from today's 30 m DEM, the 1744 album and typology: most hills are guesses (C), the pale ones generated where the plan draws none. Colours are chosen for the view. Drag to turn, right-drag to move, scroll to zoom. Click a hall: the view zooms in and a panel shows what we know. Paths: traced on the plan S01 and graded by the 1744 leaves, the texts and the digs; the pale ones are guesses. A route follows them at eye height. Planting: what the 1744 poems, prefaces and leaves, 日下旧闻考, the later imperial poems and the eyewitnesses name for each scene; no plan draws a tree, so every place is generated, and the pale fill (assumed) is typical planting where no source names any.
Light: the sun, the sky, the shadows, the haze and the night of Beautiful light are a choice for the look, not evidence: a clear day in the season you pick, by Beijing's clock. Clean is the historical view.
Night: no source places a lantern or says which rooms were lit before 1860. The lanterns along the galleries, before the gates and the main halls and at the landings, and the lit windows, are generated by fixed rules for the look of a festival night (assumed, C); the Assumed switch hides them.
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