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The house from the south-east on a clear January morning after snow, with frost on bare oaks and white hills beyond. Snow lies on the flatter top of the shell with copper showing through, the window bands glow warm, and the glass in the roof is lit from the garden beneath. Off brief: the whole shell is clad in copper, losing the larch sides between the stone and the copper crown. The upper window band tilts down towards the east rather than running level.

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South-east in winter snow

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South-east in winter snow

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Seasons · view 13 of 13 · rendered with ChatGPT image generation.

Attach model-south-east.jpg (shape reference). The first image here is the result.

Open a fresh ChatGPT chat for each view, so it does not borrow from the last image. Attach only the one reference image named, then paste the prompt and ask for landscape format. If a render drifts, send it back with a short edit: "Keep everything the same except ...".

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Turn the attached 3D model image into a photorealistic architectural photograph. Keep the exact shape, proportions, camera angle and position of every element from the attached image. Only change the materials, lighting and surroundings as described below.

Setting: a clear, still January morning in the English Peak District after fresh snow. Low winter sun, long blue shadows, pale blue sky. Camera in the snowy field to the south-east, at eye height, 35mm lens.

Shape rules (do not change these from the image): the house is one continuous curved shell, almost square in plan, about 28 metres long and 27 metres deep, broad and low. The sides rise almost vertically from a stone base and bend smoothly into the roof in one unbroken curve, with no eaves, no gutters and no corner between wall and roof. The roof dips gently in the middle and lifts towards each end, with only a slight overhang at the ends. The end walls are wide, low arches of stone, not towers.

Materials:
- The curved sides: vertical untreated larch boards weathered to soft silver-honey, running up and over the bend.
- The upper part of the shell: standing-seam copper weathered to warm brown with first hints of green.
- The base: dark coursed Derbyshire gritstone. On the south side a stone plinth about 3.3 metres high where the land falls away, with one deep-set opening at the far left corner.
- Windows: the long ground floor band and the shorter upper band in deep chunky oak frames with oak mullions every 1.5 metres, on a knee-high gritstone sill.
- The east end: coursed gritstone with one tall narrow window behind close-set oak fins.
- The car barn behind on the right: gritstone, a small copper roof with a gentle dip and rise, joined to the house by a short low stone gallery.
- A thin layer of snow lies on the flatter copper top of the shell, with the warm copper showing through where it has slid away near the curve. The steep larch sides are clear of snow, silver in the cold light.
- The glass roof in the middle is closed and clear of snow, with a faint warm glow from the garden beneath.
- Warm light glows from the oak-framed window bands.

Surroundings: snow-covered fields, dry stone walls capped with snow, bare oaks with frost, white hills and a few sheep in the distance.

Style: high-end architectural photography, cold crisp light with warm windows, realistic snow. Avoid: changing the shape, long narrow building, upright walls with a separate roof on top, roof curling at the ends, stone towers, eaves, gutters, barn conversion look, stadium, white render, people, text.

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The house from the south-east on a clear January morning after snow, with frost on bare oaks and white hills beyond. Snow lies on the flatter top of the shell with copper showing through, the window bands glow warm, and the glass in the roof is lit from the garden beneath. Off brief: the whole shell is clad in copper, losing the larch sides between the stone and the copper crown. The upper window band tilts down towards the east rather than running level.
01 · The house from the south-east on a clear January morning after snow
Screenshot of the 3D model from the south-east, untextured, on a pale ground. The curved shell in flat larch and copper colours, the two blue window bands on the south side, the gritstone plinth, the east gable with its window, and the car barn to the right. The shape reference for the south-east, autumn and winter renders.
02 · Screenshot of the 3D model from the south-east