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My slightly-reworked version of the Starfarer, humanity's first interstellar starship... Cool ship, though. In the Books, the ship is a few kilometers long, and has two huge tubes rotating to create a sense of gravity... No cabins, no bridge really, just streams, dirt, hills, and houses inside. One tube is where the people live, the other tube is the "Wild Tube", and has all kind of plants and animals living it in. The sunlight is mimicked by huge sun-tubes running down the center of each, which fade to night for a few hours "daily". Hope you like it! Thanks for stopping in...

Nice job. Now blow it up please!! In an animation.

No shame here Pal, no different than running into a club to show your Buds a new Golf-Club, Shotgun, or Stratacastor. Great Pic.

Aye, blowing it up would totally RULE! And since it's an .obj, I bet I can explode it in Amorphium or Maya pretty easily... Here's an older, all-Brycean version. The trouble was that there were soooo many objects, and not enough families to keep track of it all. And of course, I am not BamBam and got lost in the boolean madness of it all. There was no "art to my boolean", to de-coin a phrase... The Rhino version was much more managable for me, and kept the file size down as well... Imported flawlessly, and was a piece of cake to texture after that. Many of the Brycean version's textures were there to make up for lack of geometric complexity, such as the grillwork on the front and back. Not so with the .obj version, it's nearly clean enough to be rapid-prototyped, as it is.

I would love more family groups in Bryce. I have found you can renumber families, but you cannot creat more. At least I have not found out how to. Have you ever had something rapid prototyped?

The big pic is great, but I like the thumbnail better. It really draws you in........

i definetely love it. the texture on the tubes could use some work/ship-hulling or detail, but the concept in itself is unique and awesome :)

Message edited on: 02/02/2005 08:01

ye, Drac, the ship in the story was made mostly of stone. Concrete, realy... And had these huge, ridiculous silver sluglike robots "iconoblasts" and "iconoclasts" that would creep along the hull and repair damage to the Tubes.