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While the actual story is a bit of a blow, the photos do look kinda inspiring...
https://gizmodo.com/second-cable-fails-at-arecibo-causing-even-more-damage-1845619120 I was wondering about a quake1 level I played over the years. It was called "Io" and was an absurdical large level of a spacecraft that tumbled down on the Mars moon. One had to collect several runes in a spherical astronomy lab.
I thought it was a map of mx or someone else but I can retrieve it only if I make a large jump in my archive. after a large jump yes, it was called "TitanBeta5 / io" from MechTech and I'm surprised I can't find it on Quaddicted. Realy a top of the hat map, blew me sofar of my feet I would stop mapping.
:P TitanBeta5 Ran into this while reading about fusion reactors. Everybody knows tokamaks, right? They're just toruses ie donuts. Many movies have used that shape.
Then there's the stellarator. Wendelstein-7-X is the most famous one, and it's somewhat twisty but still kind of like a Tokamak. But when I saw the stellarator known as the Japanese Large Helical Device, I thought about the board immediately. It is bizarre. Glamour shot: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Helical_Device#/media/Datei:Large_Helical_Device_mirrored_(2725741289).jpg More photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/whibiki/sets/72157626876262046/ https://petapixel.com/2019/07/13/shooting-high-res-thermal-photos-of-iceland-to-show-nature-at-work/?q=5
The color ranges do fit the Q1 palette so much IMO. Very inspiring. HNY https://imgur.com/gallery/WcI15oi
Check out the video in the comments on how the excavators moved - they actually walked. (I'm sure this is lifted from some actual source but it's a nice overview.) "Top 100 3D Renders from the Internet's Largest CG Challenge"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKBs9l8jS6Q It was a contest to create a 3D clip based on a simple animation as a starting point. These were the top entries. It's pretty cool, lots of neat sci fi and fantasy environments and characters on display. A lot of those were pretty incredible. The toothpaste one had me cracking up. I loved the ones with enormous backgrounds and monsters. I wish that more games incorporated that sense of scale.
Well, since a spammer bumped the thread, here's a cool photo.
https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1496247749665-49cf5b1022e9?ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=2346&q=80 That is kinda neat.... but also gives me an idea for a game. Imagine each of those nested pictures as a "locations" in a point-and-click adventure game, and the only way to travel between "locations" is to zoom in or out to the next one.
I think I avoided Atlantis because it looked a bit too much like Myst, which bored the hell out of me in the 90's. I'd love to see the concept used in more of a LucasArts/Sierra style adventure though.
This is everything a Quake map should be:
- unsettling/unfamiliar location - strong use of light and shadow - brown https://www.reddit.com/r/classicalmusic/comments/qzdab2/inside_a_locke_hill_cello_circa_1780/ Plaza in front of the central train station in Sofia, Bulgaria:
https://i.redd.it/fpmy576xxu681.jpg Street view: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.7112226,23.3201303,3a,75y,13.78h,92.61t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1skNZUfLYBTHb0mY123HcNew!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en |
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