Martian Frontier: Building Tomorrow by wblack
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Martian Frontier: Building Tomorrow
An Orion’s Arm Future History Image
Continuing my revisit to the early days of the Martian conquest – construction of large scale habitats at the primary landing site.
The stripped cores of the 10K ton landing craft --110 of which delivered the settlers, and all they possess, to the Martian surface -- can be seen beyond the settlement.
In context this image, it would fall between the following post’s Syria Planum Landing and Mars Colony: The Expanding Frontier.
Mars surface texture uses Mars rover image source files original images courtesy NASA/JPL.
Space suit is a Google SketchUp 3DS model of the NASA Mk III suit design created by Max Grueter.
All other models are my own Bryce creations, constructed in Bryce 6.3and rendered in Bryce 7 Pro.
As always thank you for your interest, thoughtful comments, and encouragement.
Comments (9)
flavia49
gorgeous scene and models
geirla
Very nice! Great sequence of images.
peedy
Fantastic! Great moddeling and detail! Corrie
saphira1998
great
thecytron
Xcellent render!
Bambam131
What I love about your images William are the imaginative ways that you present the future. All these things look very plausible with the right funding. You give an excellent perspective for what the future would look like if we do decide to colonize Mars in the future. I love the positive view of what the future holds as this is what I would like to think we will be doing hopefully in out life time. This is what I would rather see any day then a spaceship loaded down with every type of weapon imaginable as we head out to explore the cosmos. If the truth be told, any alien race that we would encounter as we head out through our solar system would be at a minimum centuries ahead of us in technology but more likely thousands to if not millions of years a head of us. So frankly all that wasted time and effort to lift all this crap to LEO would not be worth the effort or expense as that money could be put to better use, i.e. whats in this picture! Thanks again for giving us all here a positive view of what the future may hold. Excellent my friend!!!! Cheers, David
NefariousDrO
This is so awesome, you did a great job of blending your models with the NASA picture, and the construction looks like the kind of thing we see even now which really adds to the realism and believability of this. I agree with Bambam131, I sure hope this does at least start to happen in my lifetime.
rstar
Like Bambam131, I like where you're going with this. I, too, am very hopeful for our future and don't understand why every spaceship and future aircraft model has to have all those prerequisite cannons poking out from them. If the modeller has created them with the ability to remove that part of the mesh,I usually remove the guns and cannons from my images when I use their meshes. if you are creating the models, is there a possibility that you could make them available in the store someday? Thanks for giving us a positive "exploration of the Universe" alternative.
1358
not a crit... but maybe a geodisic dome would be faster to assemble, easier, more durable, greater energy efficiency.... but still, this is a nice classical image, very 60's style....