Making Virtual Reality of the Horseshoe Bossier City Casino
Riverboat  Wednesday, September 01, 1999 When commercial
designer Bauer Interiors hired the architectural firm of Landry
and Lewis in Hattiesburg, Miss. to provide interior drawings of
Horseshoe Casino's new riverboat, King of the Red, in Bossier
City, La., they knew the draftsman would use computer-aided-
design (CAD) graphics. Therefore, the company expected more than
the usual hand-drawn renderings for the 275-ft.-long riverboat
Horseshoe intended to replace its smaller Queen of the Red. What
they didn't count on getting were computer renderings so
faithful to reality that when they are placed next to actual
photographs of the finished interior, it's difficult to tell the
difference. "Using 3-D computer graphics software to create the
interior renderings provided us and the client with numerous
advantages you just don't get from the traditional hand-drawn
color renderings," Bauer Interiors President Grace Bauer says.
"It enabled us to make last-min