The inside of a Rama-cylinder - 3-d animation galore.

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The inside of a Rama-cylinder - 3-d animation galore.

Post by cosmicalstorm »

I just ran across this page -
http://ebruneton.free.fr/rama3/rama.html

- and I figured I have to post it here!

It's a very cool animation of the inside of a Rama cylinder.

If you read the books like I did and had a hard time trying to picture what a Cylinder-world would look like in reality, you cannot pass up on this!

Screencaps:


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Here's a low-resolution version of the video hosted on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiO8CgGiWPM

Here's a high-res version of the same video hosted at Megaupload in case download from his website is slow:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TEU9ZHB9

A PDF describing the creation of the video/pictures, most of it is over my head but some might find it interesting:
http://ebruneton.free.fr/rama3/rama.pdf

(I did some searching and I could'nt see it posted here previously though I could be wrong)
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Post by Gullible Jones »

Holy shit that's awesome. Makes me want to read Clarke again...

(And the island of New York being Manhattan is a nice touch.)
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Reminds me a bit of Babylon 5 only, you know, bigger.
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Post by DesertFly »

That's really freaking awesome.

I want one!
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