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Thread: Fractal Etch mapping
Post: RE: Fractal Etch mapping
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selden Wrote: (11-10-2015, 01:15 AM)
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My understanding (which might be mistaken) is that mipmapping makes the image file all that much bigger: all of the images at the different resolutions are inc... |
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Thread: Fractal Etch mapping
Post: RE: Fractal Etch mapping
| There is a bit more to the Fractal Etch scheme than making the 256x256 cube maps. 256x256 is OK for rendering the planet for a representative image, but what if you look closer? The image can get ver... |
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11-09-2015, 05:15 PM |
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Thread: Fractal Etch mapping
Post: RE: Fractal Etch mapping
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selden Wrote: (11-06-2015, 01:41 AM)
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A visual explorer enhanced by a command-line-driven file generator sounds good to me :) If the latter could be made multi-threaded in some way, that'd help its... |
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11-06-2015, 09:44 AM |
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Thread: Fractal Etch mapping
Post: RE: Fractal Etch mapping
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selden Wrote: (11-05-2015, 01:37 AM)
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DarkMatter,
Understood. In that case, the slight misalignment is not at all surprising.
Are you expecting to be able to support larger maps that could be... |
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Thread: Fractal Etch mapping
Post: RE: Fractal Etch mapping
| Inside the program the maps are 6 x 256x256, so they perfect. That is just a screen grab (and it might have a little gimp processing done on it), so the edge pixels may not be perfect. Using the cube ... |
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Thread: 100Km Diameter Ring Orbitals
Post: RE: 100Km Diameter Ring Orbitals
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Rynn Wrote: (11-03-2015, 06:48 PM)
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Design maybe, construction method not so much. More advanced molecular nanotechnology was available just prior to the technocalpyse and again during the first fe... |
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11-03-2015, 09:55 PM |
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Thread: 100Km Diameter Ring Orbitals
Post: RE: 100Km Diameter Ring Orbitals
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ai_vin Wrote: (11-03-2015, 04:33 PM)
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"How are you deriving these numbers? At Earth's distance from the sun, solar flux is about 1GW per km2. An array spanning a 100km ring would be roughly 100km o... |
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Thread: 100Km Diameter Ring Orbitals
Post: RE: 100Km Diameter Ring Orbitals
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stevebowers Wrote: (11-02-2015, 09:46 PM)
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Do you use any 3D software yourself that might make an image of this kind of habitat? I can make an image of a basic torus in space if you like, and add d... |
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11-03-2015, 02:54 PM |
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Thread: 100Km Diameter Ring Orbitals
Post: RE: 100Km Diameter Ring Orbitals
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Rynn Wrote: (10-30-2015, 11:01 PM)
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Cooking with fission bombs? Seems like one of those engineering ideas that sounds ridiculous and ends up being...ridiculous :p. How much energy would it take to ... |
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Thread: 100Km Diameter Ring Orbitals
Post: RE: 100Km Diameter Ring Orbitals
| Terrain Voxels
Previously I outlined a construction method to make hex tiles that could be used to fabricate the interlocking substrate belt of a smallish orbital. The next step would be to think a... |
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Thread: 100Km Diameter Ring Orbitals
Post: RE: 100Km Diameter Ring Orbitals
| It sounds like this thread can bubble along for a while and see what comes out of it. I found that the bits of the Culture books that dealt with orbitals and habitats were the most interesting and I ... |
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Thread: 100Km Diameter Ring Orbitals
Post: RE: 100Km Diameter Ring Orbitals
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Rynn Wrote: (10-30-2015, 02:35 AM)
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One question I have: why make two parallel lines and have them connect after flexing? That seems needlessly complicated compared to having one line that flexes i... |
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10-30-2015, 09:13 AM |
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Thread: 100Km Diameter Ring Orbitals
Post: RE: 100Km Diameter Ring Orbitals
| Here is an attempt to describe what a space manufacturing process might look like. This is an extrapolation of what is bleeding edge at the moment, and hopefully gives some insight into what large sca... |
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10-30-2015, 12:30 AM |
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Thread: 100Km Diameter Ring Orbitals
Post: RE: 100Km Diameter Ring Orbitals
| OK, so I might have posted this thread in the wrong section. It is not really my intention to actually lobby for you guys to change the EG. If you read some of my ideas and like them, maybe you can u... |
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10-29-2015, 06:22 PM |
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Thread: 100Km Diameter Ring Orbitals
Post: RE: 100Km Diameter Ring Orbitals
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Bear Wrote: (10-29-2015, 10:17 AM)
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Incidentally, I still don't think that wasting reaction mass which could be used for something else is a reasonable way of spinning something like this up. The ... |
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10-29-2015, 04:45 PM |
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Thread: Fractal Etch mapping
Post: RE: Fractal Etch mapping
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stevebowers Wrote: (10-29-2015, 04:48 AM)
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Is there a way to share this fractalisng software, DarkMatter? I'd quite like to try it.
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Steve - if you are brave enough you can try it out. All you ... |
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Thread: 100Km Diameter Ring Orbitals
Post: RE: 100Km Diameter Ring Orbitals
| OK sounds good - you guys know more about the timeline than I do.
Here is another thought. Based on the counter rotating pairs idea, the physics would also support stacking many of these rings coax... |
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10-28-2015, 06:41 PM |
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Thread: 100Km Diameter Ring Orbitals
Post: RE: 100Km Diameter Ring Orbitals
| I can see that from a 11K timeframe this looks a bit like ancient history. Nevertheless, there always has to be a first of everything, so I suppose that it could be interesting to describe a plausible... |
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10-28-2015, 03:34 PM |
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Thread: 100Km Diameter Ring Orbitals
Post: RE: 100Km Diameter Ring Orbitals
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Drashner1 Wrote: (10-27-2015, 12:58 PM)
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So, finally got a chance to give this a read thru - fun:)
Plugging Y11K tech into this kind of hab, we get:
a) Construction and interior terraforming ... |
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10-27-2015, 02:37 PM |
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Thread: 100Km Diameter Ring Orbitals
Post: RE: 100Km Diameter Ring Orbitals
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Bear Wrote: (10-26-2015, 03:03 PM)
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One thing about this scale is that it could reasonably be constructed without benefit of any insanely strong materials - buckytubes, which are at the bleeding ed... |
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