Stanford Torus Detail: Docking Module This is a follow up to my previous post System States Era Stanford Torus. Note: Text of previous post updated 3/24/2012 to highlight an up-coming historical era definition chart detailing various aspects of my future history project time-line—and (frankly) to clean up some slightly messy syntax. I’ve constructed a tremendous amount of detail into my Stanford Torus model – this image is the result of a 21.5 hour render (not including post work). I have completed one render of a single “segment” of the Stanford Torus interior, which contains an Earth-like biosphere and free standing structures — and based on the render time for image and mask I fully expect the completed image (rendered in individual segments) will exceed 60 hours of render time, not including post-work. Here I’ve focused on the space-port module of the colony, detailing the articulated docking arms, traffic-control and communications tower, and in-bound/out-bound freight warehousing system. These colonies house large populations and are independent nation-states engaged in resource exploration, heavy industry, and trade in the context of a free market economy. The axial portion of the colony contains industrial manufacturing and the “torus” section is the physical habitat with areas devoted to agriculture, habitation, and recreational parkland. Spacecraft is an up-dated version of my own Hercules VTOL Cargo Lifter, Diagram Here, and image here: Saturn IV: Dione Outback. All models are my own Bryce creations. As always thank you for your interest, thoughtful comments, and encouragement.