villagestudies

AN EXPERIMENT IN PLACE & POSSIBILITY

Small places.
New perspectives.

Real villages, reimagined in low poly.
Compare the craft, explore the worlds,
and see what each attempt took.

The collection

4 studies

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STUDY 006
Aerial low-poly Goostrey with winding roads, hundreds of houses, church, pubs, brooks and fieldsExplore in 3D ↗

CHESHIRE, ENGLAND / OPENAI

Goostrey

Integrity compromised

A map-informed village with 468 homes, St Luke's Church and the two pubs. This run read earlier attempt notes during integration and is not an independent benchmark result.

MODEL
GPT-6 Sol · High effort
GENERATED · UTC
27 September 2026
TIME TAKEN
20m 30s
TOKENS · IN / OUT
Not recorded / Not recorded
API ESTIMATE · USD
Not recorded

Created through Blender MCP with packed PixPal materials. Read the integrity disclosure in the study notes.

Standard rates / 1M tokens: Not recorded · Cache discounts included in estimate.

STUDY 005
Low-poly Goostrey on a terrain block: winding streets of brick and rendered homes, the church tower, brook valleys and hedged fieldsExplore in 3D ↗

CHESHIRE, ENGLAND / CLAUDE

Goostrey

Village study

Between the brooks. Real EU-DEM terrain, 436 homes placed from the map’s footprints, and the landmarks of Goostrey.

MODEL
Claude Opus 5.5 · High effort
GENERATED · UTC
27 September 2026
TIME TAKEN
40m 16s
TOKENS · IN / OUT
Not recorded / Not recorded
API ESTIMATE · USD
Not recorded

Created through Blender MCP. PixPal materials, glowing windows and lamps, hedged fields and livestock.

Standard rates / 1M tokens: Not recorded · Cache discounts included in estimate.

STUDY 004
Low-poly Goostrey village with hundreds of homes, a church, village pubs, winding roads and hedged fieldsExplore in 3D ↗

CHESHIRE, ENGLAND / OPENAI

Goostrey

Village study

A village in the fields. Winding lanes, 411 homes and the landmarks of Goostrey.

MODEL
GPT-6 Astra · High effort
GENERATED · UTC
27 September 2026
TIME TAKEN
23m 32s
TOKENS · IN / OUT
Not recorded / Not recorded
API ESTIMATE · USD
Not recorded

Created through Blender MCP. PixPal materials, illuminated windows and a map-informed village layout.

Standard rates / 1M tokens: Not recorded · Cache discounts included in estimate.

STUDY 003
Goostrey test terrain with a brick house, fields, brook and country lane Explore in 3D ↗

CHESHIRE, ENGLAND / OPENAI

Goostrey

Showcase test

A little terrain, one brick house, and a new light on the village.

MODEL
GPT-6 Astra · High effort
GENERATED · UTC
Generation in progress
TIME TAKEN
Not recorded
TOKENS · IN / OUT
Not recorded / Not recorded
API ESTIMATE · USD
Not recorded

This is just a test for building the showcase app. Partial terrain and one basic house.

Standard rates / 1M tokens: Not recorded · Cache discounts included in estimate.

THE IDEA BEHIND THE STUDIES

From a place on the map
to a world you can wander.

How well can an AI understand a village, then build it? This benchmark brings together maps, photographs and 3D modelling to find out.

Every study records its model, generation window and usage. Cost estimates preserve the rates used at the time, so later price changes do not rewrite the comparison.