Here: Bird's view on the middle front section of the imperial carrier 
SENECA.

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Here: Bird's view of the center of the imperial carrier SENECA showing 
the panoramic quarters.

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Here: Rear view of the middle front section of the imperial carrier 
SENECA containing the panoramic quarters and a large sensor bay. There 
are still many details to come, such as small surface structures, 
antennas and others.

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Here: Front view of the imperial carrier SENECA. The command tower in 
the middle has been completed, but there are still many details for me 
to develop for the two side bays and parts of the ship center.

Background:

The SENECA is a giant ship and capable of carrying thousands of crafts 
of all sizes. Inside its two side bays the SENECA can carry a view large 
cruisers (as a mobile space station) and dozens or hundreds of the 
smaller ship classes. Human crew is not neccessary as these imperial 
space carriers are fully automatized. In resource-rich environments such 
as asteroid fields or planets, it can even automatical harvest resources 
required, automatically assemble probes and smaller vessels, and launch 
them on a permanent base. This way, it can also repair itself.
The SENECA does not use any chemical propulsion system which is the 
reason you won't see any open parts. The SENECA uses an internal 
gravitron drive. The SENECA "was" built shortly before the jumping drive 
came in use and made such huge long-range ships obsolete.

Scene File:

Already now, the file is designed to be used for animations, and I did 
already a brief animation of ten seconds. The disadvantage is that each 
frame takes its time due the many divisions I have to do, since I do all 
coding "by hand", without any 3D editor. No polygon shapes used, just 
divided standard shapes.

I also did a starbase which was partially hand-coded and partially 
automatically generated through a self-written computer program. I might 
use that program for some parts of the two side bays of the SENECA, as 
well. But not sure yet.

Further intentions: creating jumper ships and many smaller vessels.

Sven Littkowski

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Sven Littkowski wrote:
> Here: Bird's view on the middle front section of the imperial carrier 
> SENECA.

These two attached images are simply cropped details from your preview 3 
and 4 images.

Just curious -- was the "happy face" intentional?

And when I enlarge the second image I can see it's just a hatch of some 
sort and shadows.  But with a normal, unexpanded view it looks (to me) 
like a figure of a man holding a weapon.

This is NOT a criticism of your very impressive images and I'm not 
suggesting changes.  But I was somewhat amused at these two details.

      -=- Larry -=-

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Hello Larry,

never mind - I welcome criticism but I also understand easily that you just 
mention it because of the funny nature of your observation.

Yes, you are right, these details look truly the way you have mentioned. But 
that's entirely unintentionally, and also just based on the perspective.
The "smiley" is just a superstructure meant for conferences or meetings. 
What you see are the roof windows of that structure.

And the "warrior" is caused by sensor arrays and antennas inside a large 
bay.

It is nice that someone looks to my images, and I am happy to receive a 
first feedback. I want to invite you all to give me more of your feedbacks!

Greetings,

Sven Littkowski




"Larry Hudson" <org### [at] yahoocom> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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> Sven Littkowski wrote:
>> Here: Bird's view on the middle front section of the imperial carrier
>> SENECA.
>
> These two attached images are simply cropped details from your preview 3
> and 4 images.
>
> Just curious -- was the "happy face" intentional?
>
> And when I enlarge the second image I can see it's just a hatch of some
> sort and shadows.  But with a normal, unexpanded view it looks (to me)
> like a figure of a man holding a weapon.
>
> This is NOT a criticism of your very impressive images and I'm not
> suggesting changes.  But I was somewhat amused at these two details.
>
>      -=- Larry -=-
>

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Here: Front view of the imperial carrier SENECA. I have started now the 
detail works on the side bays.

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I'm sorry i can't see it. i just get htm files with strange image links like
src="cid:052201c66b12$5c5167a0$16b2a8c0@SVEN" but i don't see anything.
Is this a problem on my side?
I'm curious to see the images!

Regards Roman

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news:445295e2@news.povray.org...
>Here: Bird's view on the middle front section of the imperial carrier
SENECA.


That's impressively Imperial indeed :-)

The little reserve I can have is that you should vary slightly the color en
intensity of the bay lights.
Regarding those bays, I thonk anti-aliasing has problems with hi rgb value
pixels, which version of povray are you using?

Marc

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Hi Roman,

hmmm, sounds unusual. Let me ask you: do you see here any other image file? 
Nearly each topic here has an image file. If you cannot see any graphics 
here, you might check your settings. Do you use an e-mail program such as 
Eudora or Outlook (Express)? Or do you use a web browser?

Later,

Sven

"Roman Reiner" <lim### [at] gmxde> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:web.4453a23cdda5ea50dad8fec00@news.povray.org...
> I'm sorry i can't see it. i just get htm files with strange image links 
> like
> src="cid:052201c66b12$5c5167a0$16b2a8c0@SVEN" but i don't see anything.
> Is this a problem on my side?
> I'm curious to see the images!
>
> Regards Roman
>

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