Ringworlds!

Fuzzy Modem · Post by **Fuzzy Modem** » 2004-01-23 01:53am

Well, ring stations anyway, agricultural stations built around quasar remnants.

Resolutions
1600-> http://www.angelfire.com/dragon/fuzzymo ... ns1600.jpg
1280-> http://www.angelfire.com/dragon/fuzzymo ... ns1280.jpg
1024-> http://www.angelfire.com/dragon/fuzzymo ... ns1024.jpg
800-> http://www.angelfire.com/dragon/fuzzymo ... ons800.jpg

Thoughts? Opinions? Critiques?

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2004-01-23 07:57am

They are...Asthetically pleasing. Though, not...spectacular. You can do better! (But they are quite neat!)

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-01-23 11:44am

A real ring world would not look like that. it would look considerably different, much thinner. and whats with the atmo?

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2004-01-23 12:34pm

Atmo=Nebulae, I think.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-01-23 04:49pm

im being too nitpicky here, im sure, but nebulae dont look like that. you wouldnt see it from within. the entire thing looks.. wrong. .

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-01-23 04:52pm

It's too bright, in my opinion.

What if you made the stars darker, like red dwarfs?

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2004-01-23 05:03pm

looks to me like its coming out of the star....

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-01-23 05:09pm

Yeah, the gas stuff needs to go. It makes it too busy, nevermind that you can't make out what it's supposed to be.

Better would be to change them to dim red dwarfs. That should also help the scaling, too.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2004-01-24 07:22am

Erm, i'd just like to add that quasars are actually galaxies that shit out loads of stuff from the centre, not stars.

Personally, i think it'd be cooler if you had cities on the curved side of them, maybe a few docks with ships in, and a few ships flying about, so we get a sense of scale, which i think is missing in both of those, as it looks like the stars are far too close to the ringworlds and each other, as well as beign too small.

I like the rods/spires though, i think if you do put cities on the rings, more spires would be cool.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-01-24 09:27pm

Maybe the "atmospheres" are the products of some weird stellar phenomena.

I love the work anyway. It'd be better if you could make them wallpaper-size.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2004-01-24 10:42pm

Shinova wrote:Maybe the "atmospheres" are the products of some weird stellar phenomena.

I love the work anyway. It'd be better if you could make them wallpaper-size.

What the hell resolution is your desktop?

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-01-24 10:51pm

1024x768.

The 1024 one he has is 1024xsomething else. That'd skew the image.

I'd probably make it wallpaper myself but that would mean I have to add black bars to the top and bottom.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-01-25 03:16am

shinova: just center it on your desktop and set the bg color to black so that the black bars are just there by default.

mauldooku · Post by **mauldooku** » 2004-01-25 05:42pm

I don't know what the hell anyone else is thinking, but those shots are amazing!

Good work, dude!