Looking good. I can't wait to see it with the dome. Great minds and all that, right?
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OT -- Floating City WIP
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ty! I'm trying to go for a combination of symmetrical and not... I figured there might be some balance issues, and the other structures are either power complexes or hotels, which tend to be standardized. The middle ring is the residential one and thus has the most complexity.
Here's the first HDRI version!
Here's the first HDRI version!
From a design standpoint, wouldn't the builders have kept utilities and things on the lower levels and leave the surface for mainly residences, retail, hotels, restaurants? Hehe, that way the residents might eventually call going to work "going to hell". In that they have to come down from the residence towers.
oooo, would be cool to see a park thrown in there somewhere!
Beautiful work by the way!
oooo, would be cool to see a park thrown in there somewhere!
Beautiful work by the way!
^^ty! And my theory is that you wouldn't be on foot past the outer subway line, getting to the outer hotel ring and the hangars from inside. So you wouldn't be going through that part but under it, and if you lived there you'd spend your time inside that ring and away from the power stations and hangarbays anyway--like the utility complexes and shipping facilities on the edges of terrestrial cities... and I thought about some trees, though the poly count on this is already waaaay higher than my old PC is happy playing with lol. I figured that if it was floating around the upper atmosphere it might not be a good place for exterior trees... greenhouses and solaria, perhaps?
And here's a go at the domed version!
And here's a go at the domed version!
I am reminded of James Blish's Cities in Flight series about starship cities abandoning Earth to go out among the stars looking for colonies that would pay them for services such as industrialization, products and services.
Slap a forcefield and a warp drive and you could have a city in flight.
Slap a forcefield and a warp drive and you could have a city in flight.
That's awesome! What is supposed to be going on underneath it, though? I guess it has artificial gravity....
I wonder what it would look like attached to an asteroid? Maybe it travels around and attaches to an interesting asteroid, to harvest resources and such. When it leeches out all of the raw materials, they detach and move on.
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I wonder what it would look like attached to an asteroid? Maybe it travels around and attaches to an interesting asteroid, to harvest resources and such. When it leeches out all of the raw materials, they detach and move on.
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Very nice!!
One thing that caught my eye is that the hotels are outside the dome. I'm guessing they're air-tight and are out there for an unobstructed view? If that's the goal, the architecture might be more practical if it was curved, something like the Encore and Wynn in Las Vegas:
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/2759/gdfrv0.jpg
That would give more rooms an awesome outward view.
One thing that caught my eye is that the hotels are outside the dome. I'm guessing they're air-tight and are out there for an unobstructed view? If that's the goal, the architecture might be more practical if it was curved, something like the Encore and Wynn in Las Vegas:
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/2759/gdfrv0.jpg
That would give more rooms an awesome outward view.
