Here is a crude render of a hollowed-out asteroid space colony. I used to read about space colonies when I was a kid...always wondered what they would really look like. Now Indigo gives me the chance...
This one is a "bubble formed" asteroid, about 3 to 5 km across and 5 to 8 km log, spinning around its long axis to simulate gravity (probably between 1/6 and 1 earth gravity). There are two illumination plates at either end (piped in sunlight?). It's filled with an oxygen-nitrogen mix atmosphere at about 1/2 of sea level pressure; scattering from this air accounts for the blue haze. There is a cylindrical sea at its equator..
Modeled this in Blender, with "poplar" trees from Arboro and some rather simple houses modeled in Blender, exported as Dupli-Verts objects. 1 Blender / Indigo unit is 10 meters -- set world scale of "10" in Blendigo.
What are scattering / eccentricity coefficients for air? What are absorption and dispersion values for water? How can I have translucent leaves on trees, like in real life (i.e. sunlight illuminates leaves a little from behind)?
Ed Sweet
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Oh, very nice idea... but you have to do major work on it!
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Wow I think it's awesome, visualizing how something would look that you can't quite imagine.
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I don't have the faintest idea of what this image represents! Good work!
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It's a landscape inside an asteroid.
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I see it now... amazing job... it really goes against all the procenceived reality (mine at least)zeitmeister wrote:It's a landscape inside an asteroid.
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