# Two west-coast village and bay studies

## Suggested caption

**Anse La Raye and Canaries, shown as two separate places.** Original illustrative 3D studies, not to scale. Selected shoreline, road, roof-center and landmark relationships follow inspected references. Relief, architecture, vegetation, water appearance and dimensions are interpreted. River crossings are undated abstractions, not a claim about current bridge completion or condition. These are not survey, engineering, elevation, flood, bathymetric or hazard models.

## Evidence visually inspected before modeling

1. **Saint Lucia Tourism Authority — Go West: Anse La Raye and Canaries Await You!** Stan Bishop, 13 August 2020. https://stlucia.org/en/blog/go-west-anse-la-raye-and-canaries-await-you/ . The main bay photograph (`IMG_6432-scaled.jpg`) confirms Anse La Raye's curved sandy waterfront, compact low-rise village, jetty and wooded headlands. `IMG_6429.jpg` confirms the signed Anse La Raye location; `IMG_6317.jpg` was inspected for the waterfront fishing-boat context; `IMG_6405.jpg` shows the signed Canaries lookout and its wooded coast. Other gallery photographs were inspected but not used to infer geometry. The page establishes the two distinct west-coast communities. The historical article is not used as a claim about present-day services or projects.
2. **Celebrity Cruises — Anse La Raye overview photograph.** https://www.celebritycruises.com/blog/content/uploads/2021/06/seaside-villages-anse-la-raye-st-lucia-1024x683.jpg . Downloaded and visually inspected. It shows the long waterfront buildings, beach, jetty, compact village and red-roofed church mass near the southern end. The visible northern stream mouth informed the recognition that this is a river-bay setting; only the principal southern channel is modeled in the selected crop. Photo capture date and photographer credit were not independently established.
3. **Public Insider-hosted Canaries aerial photograph.** https://i.insider.com/62ec1c4781644d0018dc6a9b?format=jpeg . Downloaded at its published resolution and visually inspected. Place identity was cross-checked against the separate satellite mosaic: compact triangular village footprint, southwest river mouth, inland recreation ground, slender waterfront jetty, red-roofed church mass, and enclosing steep wooded slopes agree. The asset was supplied as a Gabriel Ramos / Getty lead, but its photographer credit was not independently verified and is not asserted here. Capture date is unknown. Reference only; the photo is excluded from the deliverables.
4. **Esri ArcGIS World Imagery — reference-only mosaics.** https://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Imagery/MapServer . Tile service at zoom 17. Anse La Raye: columns 43308–43312, rows 60407–60411. Canaries: columns 43300–43304, rows 60420–60424. Downloaded and visually inspected on 6 September 2026. Capture dates are unverified and imagery may depict older conditions. Selected coastline control points, road alignments and representative roof centers were manually interpreted from the mosaics. No aerial photograph, map tile, satellite texture or extracted pixels are embedded in the scene, poster, animation or source ZIP.

## What is observed, and what is interpreted

**Anse La Raye:** A broader curved beach with a compact street grid behind it; a slender jetty; elongated waterfront buildings; a church mass toward the southern end; the southern river and crossing; recreation space inland; surrounding wooded relief. Selected roof centers are based on the inspected imagery. The model depicts a cropped village-and-bay section, not the whole district or electoral constituency. The northern river's inland course is omitted because the inspected references did not support drawing it confidently at this scale.

**Canaries:** A distinct, tighter waterfront settlement with a compact triangular footprint; a southern river mouth; two crossing alignments visible in the undated imagery; a recreation ground inland and southeast of the older waterfront; a church mass; a slender jetty; steep enclosing wooded terrain. The depicted crossings are a general geographic relationship only. No label, construction detail, date, width, structural type or present completion claim should be inferred from them.

**Both models:** Terrain is an analytic artistic surface informed by the visible valley/headland relationships, not a digital elevation model. There is no georeferenced elevation dataset. Streets and river channels are selective abstractions; water widths and shoreline position are not measured. The river corridors are broadened to remain legible at web scale. Facades, church dimensions, roof pitches and colors, trees, palms and boats are authored interpretations. The small boats are illustrative, stationary examples and do not represent a fleet count. Water color is aesthetic and does not encode depth, pollution, sediment, erosion or flood risk. No underwater sculpture, reef layout, proposed development, marina or unverified new project is modeled. The two scenes use different cropped coordinate frames and must never be combined as contiguous geography.

## Authorship and reuse

Original new terrain, village, waterfront and river geometry was authored for this project from the inspected relationships. The model uses a shared original procedural house/tree/boat toolkit and a native triangle renderer adapted from the project's earlier Choiseul source. The new scenes do not reuse Choiseul geography, building placement, port structures or landscape meshes. Three.js r160 is included under MIT; see `THREE-LICENSE.txt`. No reuse rights are claimed for third-party reference photographs. Research image downloads are excluded from the ZIP.

## Genuine 3D animation and reproduction

The scenes contain real three-dimensional triangle meshes for terrain, building walls, pitched roofs, church masses, foliage, bridge decks and railings, boats and jetties. Each MP4 frame changes the orthographic 3D camera and rerasterizes all triangles through a depth buffer and directional shadow map. This is not a bitmap pan/zoom, parallax collage, CSS transform or image-generation animation.

Delivered posters and videos have matching 1440 × 900 dimensions. The silent videos are 10 seconds, 24 fps, H.264/yuv420p with fast-start metadata. They follow a closed sinusoidal camera path with approximately 16 degrees of azimuth travel peak-to-peak and modest vertical movement. Posters are rendered at 2880 × 1800 and downsampled with Lanczos. Videos are rendered at 2160 × 1350 and downsampled to the delivered size. There is no audio track. See `README.md` and the renderer source for reproduction.

For integration, use the static poster initially and native user-controlled playback. The two towns should be explicitly labeled and switched as separate scenes. Reduced-motion users should retain the static poster unless they choose to play.