Introduction
Get an overview on how to move around in ArchiComix. The images ar an important part of it, of course. Sure, you may start your discoveries without this introduction:
zooming
To zoom in or out an image without zooming the whole page, please click the zoom buttons above the image's top. They allow you to zoom by 10% steps.
The zoom-state of each picture is being saved locally on your device.
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San Francisco, Maritime Museum (formerly the Aquatic Park Bathehouse, 1939)
The similarity with a steamship (German: Dampfschiff or Dampfer) is not accidential and matches perfectly it being situated at the waterfront. Please note the highrise in the background: it has a curved facade as well.
I will refer to the "Dampfer"-architecture in ArchiComix time and again.
interactive image areas
Some image areas may reveal more information upon being clicked or they lead you to a different page or even a different site. If an image area leads to a different page or site, its caption ends with three dots: ...
To prevent you from searching these areas in vain you can make them visible by help of this switch:
This switch is available on each page containing at least one zoomable image with image areas. Your selected setting is being saved on your device.
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London, Tower Bridge seen from West, 1886-1894
In this almost 2-times hight-exaggerated elevation you can clearly see the suspension bridge. one of the main purposes of footbridge high above the river Thames is also to carry the suspension-bridge's enormous tension loads between the towers. Without it the towers would bend over to their respective riverbank.
Motion
Motion is often a central element in modern architecture. Animations bring it alive in ArchiComix.
You may run an animation as many times as you like (it vanishes automatically at its end), you may have it fixed (show) and of course you may hide it again.
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London, Tower Bridge
The pedestrians may cross the river Thames even though the bascules are swept up: there are stairs in the towers and a footbridge in between them. Other interesting motions concerning the Tower Bridge are way harder to animate:
• on December 30th 1952 Albert Gunter, the driver of linie 78's double-decker bus, could not brake when the South bascule started to lift - he pushed down the throttle and successfully lept the gap. Don't try this at home!
• on April 5th 1968 Flight Lieutenant Pollock flew his Hunter jet right through the narrow opening between the towers, bascules and footbridge. Try to do this in your PC's flight simulator!