WHAT ARE THE CONSTRAINTS?
Care must be taken to ensure that the visualization is a reasonable and accurate representation of
what the technical documents will provide. It is important to show only those proposed features
that will be built. Artistic license that illustrates or represents additional features not intended to
be included in the project, merely to make the images look better, is to be avoided. This is
especially true during the later stages of design development and public involvement. Not only
does artistic license add bias to the proposed alternative being simulated, it can also become the
basis of violating a “visual contract,” whereby what was illustrated may become necessary to be
built.