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by **Chuft-Captain** » Fri May 05, 2006 7:12 am

It's been a while since I posted anything about my O'Neill Colony, so here's a couple of images showing current progress. Any comments, questions, criticisms welcome as usual.

by **Dollan** » Fri May 05, 2006 7:29 am

Very neat! I can't quite tell from these shots, but are the interiors textured as well, to show the habitat proper?

...John...

by **Chuft-Captain** » Fri May 05, 2006 8:36 am

Dollan wrote:Very neat! I can't quite tell from these shots, but are the interiors textured as well, to show the habitat proper?

...John...

Yes they are John.

If you have a look at the following thread you should find a few links to my website where I have some video captures of an earlier version of this design (using different textures and earlier models). One of those videos shows a view from inside one of the cylinders. Enjoy.
http://shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php ... highlight=

by **Dollan** » Fri May 05, 2006 9:15 pm

Thanks! I definitely look forward to this release. I've always had a love for what I call the "classic" habitats (O'Neills, Bernals, and Stanfords).

...John...

by **Chuft-Captain** » Sat May 06, 2006 8:46 am

The good news is that my copy of G.K.O'Neill's "The High Frontier" has finally been shipped (yesterday) after ordering it 2 months ago from Amazon!

The bad news is that there's still a lot of work to do on my colony (and some depth-sorting bugs to be resolved) before it can be released. Not before the next release of Celestia at the earliest I'm afraid.

Sorry if I got your hopes up John

by **Dollan** » Sat May 06, 2006 8:56 am

Hey, having something to look forward to is *always* good!

...John...

by **Chuft-Captain** » Fri May 26, 2006 2:54 am

Here are some pics of a torus design I've just started working on (very early stages so please forgive the lack of nice textures). Also, Frank..I've borrowed the hub from your Space Station for the time being just for demo purposes. Hope you don't mind. (Plan is to design my own hub eventually).
Major diameter is 7km to ground level (7.5 total diameter)
Minor diameter is 500m.
This gives a strip of land 500m wide by 22km long (11sq km). To give a feeling for the size of this thing, the box you can see in the model represents a building the size of the Vehicle Assembly Building at Cape Kennedy. (160m H x 158m W x 218m L)

I've also created a video depicting a subway train travelling at 200 km/h in this habitat. You'll find it
here:http://traitorsclaw.sitesled.com/videos.html

by **selden** » Fri May 26, 2006 5:02 am

Chuft Captain,

I trust you realize that the 2001 torus model wasn't created by Frank although his inclusion of it with the Educational Activities has provided some of its popularity.

I could be mistaken, but I believe the model on the MotherLode was originally created by Michael Powell.

[edit]
The URL that I originally provided seems no longer to be appropriate.
I don't know if Michael has a Web site any more.
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by **Chuft-Captain** » Fri May 26, 2006 5:24 am

No I didn't realize that Selden. Thanks for the reference. Some excellent models there. Show's what can be done with 3D Studio and a bit of talent!!!

by **Chuft-Captain** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:57 am

Selden,

Do you know what's happened to the site you mentioned above featuring Michael Powell's 2001 model?

strafe.com seems to have been taken over by a Cyperpunk site.

by **selden** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:21 am

No, I was unaware of that :-(

Apparently the domain name was taken over by someone else.

I'll edit my posting.

by **Beowulf01** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:50 pm

That's very nice Chuft, id love to see that in My Celestia ,, since mine kinda flopped..
Ill keep a close watch on this,.

by **eburacum45** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 8:56 am

Some of my (very rough) High Frontier models are shown on this page; http://www.orionsarm.com/civ/Habitats.html
The other, non-Celestia images are by NASA and Anders Sandberg. Of course a lot of people use the NASA images because they are public domain.
I haven't got the time at the moment to make new and better ones, so I am looking forward to Chuft-Captain's models.

My models are really only good for long distance shots; they doon't rotate, and have no detailing. But they are included in the OA complete add-on anyway, to give an idea of what sort of structures would be present in a mature interstellar society.

by **Chuft-Captain** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:18 am

I thought I would share this image which IMO gives a real sense of the scale of an O'Neill Island III sized colony.
This shows what a habitat pair would look like from earth if you were to park them in an orbit at the same altitude as the ISS. ( Not that you'd ever actually do this!! ).
NOTE: For comparison, the little dot to the left of the O'Neill's is actually the ISS.

by **Beowulf01** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:03 pm

KOOL!@!
nice i like,

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