Thank you. I hope I don't screw it up too badly before I'm 'finished'.
The idea for this one has been rattling around in my head since the early 1980's. I sketched out the original version (just the top view) with a T-square and a couple of triangles.
Well, I think your 3D version has gone far beyond what you originally drew back in the day. It seems so much richer than the simple lines on the 2D drawing :thumb:
When I first drew this thing, CAD dinosaurs slowly stumbled across the Earth. As far as I know, there was only one active CAD system in this city. It was a monstrous purpose-built multi-station thing with green monchrome monitors (for the drawing) and some sort of ominous Matrix-looking display (for options and warnings) and one of those keyboards with peg-like buttons that change function depending on which template is flipped down, as well as an awkwardly positioned, unmovable qwerty keyboard.
It regularly flipped out because of some errant static charge, and you'd end up with a cloud of disconnected lines and arcs on the display. And it was slow.
A quarter century (plus a bit) later and I'm able to work on a cheap computer (with severely overpriced software) where I can finally begin to really play around with these ideas.
For some reason I feel like telling the onion belt story.
Tag: 0000 114133-0983429
Type: cargo hauler
Status: drive, life support failure
Location: Vica Narumbar IV (Tsarsic)
Orion 086.07+0103510.70
Culture: Makers of Thought
Est. Age: 1.4 billion years
Size: 750m
Nickname: Sixpack
It looks like a spaceborn trumpet... and I like it! I'm trying to remember the name of the Angel who would play the horn at the end of the world (I want to say either Sachiel or Israfel but I don't know for certain). I can imagine the discovery of this ship (which you said is a billion and a half years old) as being some portent for the end of days.
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I've decided I really hate the cargo doors.
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The idea for this one has been rattling around in my head since the early 1980's. I sketched out the original version (just the top view) with a T-square and a couple of triangles.
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We're not even going to talk about what I was doing in the early '80s.
When I first drew this thing, CAD dinosaurs slowly stumbled across the Earth. As far as I know, there was only one active CAD system in this city. It was a monstrous purpose-built multi-station thing with green monchrome monitors (for the drawing) and some sort of ominous Matrix-looking display (for options and warnings) and one of those keyboards with peg-like buttons that change function depending on which template is flipped down, as well as an awkwardly positioned, unmovable qwerty keyboard.
It regularly flipped out because of some errant static charge, and you'd end up with a cloud of disconnected lines and arcs on the display. And it was slow.
A quarter century (plus a bit) later and I'm able to work on a cheap computer (with severely overpriced software) where I can finally begin to really play around with these ideas.
For some reason I feel like telling the onion belt story.
Isn't it great how far technology has come? Just think, the Death Star schematic and attack plan in Star Wars was state-of-the-art CGI in 1977.
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Tag: 0000 201513-0038800
Type: military habitat
Status: abandoned
Location: stellar orbit, Pavecec Kavakos Minor
Orion 031.00-022730.96
Culture: Tonal Collage
Est. Age: 645 thousand years
Size: 4.2km
Nickname: Cast Iron Dandelion
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Tag: 0000 114133-0983429
Type: cargo hauler
Status: drive, life support failure
Location: Vica Narumbar IV (Tsarsic)
Orion 086.07+0103510.70
Culture: Makers of Thought
Est. Age: 1.4 billion years
Size: 750m
Nickname: Sixpack
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Maybe I should have called it "Satchmo" , "Dizzy" or "Severinsen".
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Seriously though, beautiful work.
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