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From: Artemia Salina
Subject: The S.S. Cuttlefish
Date: 9 Aug 2006 13:28:37
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Here's my improbable space ship with obligatory armaments.
The Mini Guns aren't complete yet, but the barrels do rotate
and fire in sync with the rotation. This was all modeled by
hand (using just a text editor), as are all of the POVRay
renderings I do.


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From: Daniel Hulme
Subject: Re: The S.S. Cuttlefish
Date: 9 Aug 2006 13:56:05
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> Here's my improbable space ship with obligatory armaments.
> The Mini Guns aren't complete yet, but the barrels do rotate
> and fire in sync with the rotation. This was all modeled by
> hand (using just a text editor), as are all of the POVRay
> renderings I do.
Somewhat reminiscent of the frog ships in Bucky O'Hare and the Toad
Wars, but those ships have maser cannons instead of miniguns. The colour
scheme on yours is much nicer, though.

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From: Charles C
Subject: Re: The S.S. Cuttlefish
Date: 9 Aug 2006 14:05:00
Message: <web.44da2390d76bbf87200a56120@news.povray.org>
I can imagine a very high turn rate on this thing!   I can imagine it hiding
in canyons, popping out from behind a precipice striking a much larger craft
and dissapearing again before being seen.  It's actually very sleek
considering it's round and martian-like proportions.
Charles

Artemia Salina <non### [at] nonenone> wrote:
> Here's my improbable space ship with obligatory armaments.
> The Mini Guns aren't complete yet, but the barrels do rotate
> and fire in sync with the rotation. This was all modeled by
> hand (using just a text editor), as are all of the POVRay
> renderings I do.


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: The S.S. Cuttlefish
Date: 10 Aug 2006 04:06:01
Message: <44dae8e9$1@news.povray.org>
"Artemia Salina" <non### [at] nonenone> schreef in bericht 
news:44da1b45@news.povray.org...
> Here's my improbable space ship with obligatory armaments.
> The Mini Guns aren't complete yet, but the barrels do rotate
> and fire in sync with the rotation. This was all modeled by
> hand (using just a text editor), as are all of the POVRay
> renderings I do.
>
I love it! When I was a kid (a long time ago) I made drawings of the same 
basic design. Your textures however, are much much better than my color 
pencil ones... :-)

Thomas


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From: Artemia Salina
Subject: Re: The S.S. Cuttlefish
Date: 10 Aug 2006 13:59:46
Message: <44db7412@news.povray.org>
Charles C wrote:
> I can imagine a very high turn rate on this thing!

If you reverse one engine the craft will rotate on it's axis like a top
at an extremely high rate of speed. The downside of that is when firing 
the guns you quickly find yourself in a cloud of brass.

> I can imagine it hiding in canyons, popping out from behind a precipice
> striking a much larger craft and dissapearing again before being seen.

The reason it's called the Cuttlefish is that it's hull is made of a 
moulded LCD material which is computer controlled. This allows it's 
color to change instantaineously, just like a real cuttlefish. Sampling
cameras on-board feed imagery of it's surroundings to the computer which
can be displayed on the hull, making the ship effectively invisible.

Well, that's what I imagine, anyway!

Here's a shot of the ship "unloading some ballast."


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