Func_Msgboard: Inspiration & Reference

Posted by metlslime on 2003/02/17 08:18:34

I just wanted to know if people had any links to good websites for either level design inspiration (photos, paintings, concept art, etc.) or just for architectural reference. We had a thread like this on the old qmap, but we know how much good that does us.

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Re: Big Machines

#586 posted by Kell on 2006/10/02 16:37:17

this one looks like a prototype stargate...
http://home.fnal.gov/~skands/img/cdfdetector.jpg

Phait

#587 posted by metlslime on 2006/10/02 16:48:58

they're detectors for particle accelerators. They crash commonplace particles into each other at high speeds in an attempt to create exotic, short-lived particles and observe them before they turn back into ordinary matter. These observations help support physics theories.

Yeah

#588 posted by Zwiffle on 2006/10/03 22:33:07

Fermilab rocks. Nice find.

Prototype Stargate (CDF Detector)

#589 posted by Mike Woodham on 2006/10/04 14:54:31

But don't you just love the way the ladder is propped against the wall... just like HL2! All lazy and just waiting for an accident to happen.

I Saw ATLAS Being Built This Summer

#590 posted by mwh on 2006/10/05 00:59:02

(I was at a conference at CERN).

It's BIG, but a bit cramped for having a DM in, I'd have thought... amazing gigantic almost Victorian-style machinery though.

Animators On Substances

#591 posted by bambuz on 2006/10/08 12:38:57

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lag2ooJUZ3E

Oh God This Shit Is Classic

#592 posted by Lunaran on 2006/10/08 17:16:46

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkerAQCmV_o&NR

That Was Awesome

#593 posted by Kinn on 2006/10/09 12:08:09

thanks Lun.

Of course it's all gonna go tits up once the manned missions begin and we start the excavations...

Awesome Indeed

#594 posted by tron on 2006/10/10 02:19:02

I actually think the fifth video in that series is the best though for the pure speculation and apparently drug induced imagery.

Living creatures with heat rays and ultrasonic weapons? Rock on.

Ok, Change Of Mind.

#595 posted by tron on 2006/10/10 02:29:16

While the fifth video has plenty of wtf moments, the sixth one is cool because of how close to a lot of modern thinking the journey is accomplished.

Mwh

#596 posted by inertia on 2006/10/10 13:30:28

you are physicist?

Antonio_Gaudi

#597 posted by . on 2006/10/10 17:01:32

http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Antonio_Gaudi.html

Inertia

#598 posted by mwh on 2006/10/12 01:15:45

No, mathematician/computer scientist, I was at CERN for a computing conference. Did some particle physics in my degree though, so I knew a bit about what I was seeing (the best part of the tour though was having a real live CERN scientist as your guide you could pester with questions).

MWH

#599 posted by inertia on 2006/10/12 23:28:01

nice! i'm going to into math and compsci myself (AI) so perhaps we will formulate devious plans together..

Enough Math Talk

#600 posted by pope on 2006/10/15 01:28:07

http://www.damnfunnypictures.com/html/Cool-Illustrations.html

#601 posted by Blitz on 2006/10/15 15:11:14

I would seriously buy a few of those if I could

^^^ Jacek Yerka

#602 posted by Kell on 2006/10/15 16:07:05

http://www.yerka.pl/

http://www.tendreams.org/yerka.htm

Architectural Inspiration Using HL2

#603 posted by JPL on 2006/10/16 01:18:47

Very nice builds...

http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2006/08/frank-lloyd-wright-architectual.html

Hehe

#604 posted by DaZ on 2006/10/16 02:54:32

the last comment says it all - "Looks nice but I keep expecting someone to pop out and start shooting" :D

DaZ

#605 posted by JPL on 2006/10/16 03:11:58

Yep, I agree !!

JPL

#606 posted by Kinn on 2006/10/16 12:10:28

Very interesting; for me it serves as a perfect example to demonstrate how using real-world scale always feels too small in games.

Dunno If This Has Been Posted Before...

#607 posted by than on 2006/10/20 03:49:03

http://www.khulsey.com/main_english.html

although this leaves little room for creativity, you have to admire the skill and attention to detail that (good) technical illustrators have.

Look at this ship ffs... http://www.khulsey.com/empress_main.html

Damn

#608 posted by Lunaran on 2006/10/21 14:32:09

I love this thread.

Papercut

#609 posted by metlslime on 2006/10/23 00:14:52

Only a few of these can be considered level design related, but all of it is cool:

http://www.oncotton.co.uk/peter/index/index2.html

I Am So Impressed

#610 posted by R.P.G. on 2006/10/23 06:37:48

(Paper) hats off.

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