"Tim Attwood" <tim### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> > Just to inflict interest, here a poor man's attempt:
> > Needs so much work. Like building a model, argh. Crude bumped disk so far.
>
> I've watched the show enough to know the stargate consists of 6 parts,
> The outer ring, the inner ring, the chevrons, the top lights, the side
> lights,
> and the water fountain effect in the middle.
>
> The outer ring is just a cylinder ring with some gear-like crenellations
> around the inside lip. It's mostly textured with a stone-like normal,
> and a smooth spot where the locks might engage.
>
> The inner ring has all the interesting glyphs (39?), I think you could
> save those out as heightfield images, it's probably most of the detail
> of the stargate. There's some ribs between the glyphs, more
> crenellation on a lip, and a tapered inner edge.
>
> The chevrons are the same shape all the way around the ring,
> they're T shaped, following the same curve as the disk, the
> V shaped part has grating for lights (there is an inner solid
> lip unlike the model you linked to, and I think there's more than
> six slots for light). The chevrons move in and out to lock the
> gate in position.
>
> The top lights are brighter, along with it's 4 chevron lights,
> which shine thru the chevron grates. The light frame is
> mostly translucent, and doesn't move.
>
> The side lights are dimmer, I think they might only have
> 2 side lights shining through the chevron grates as well.
> The bottom lights are the same as the side lights,
> you just never see them usually, in Stargate: Atlantis you
> see them in space sometimes.
>
> The center effect probably could be done with something
> like Rune's particle system.
> http://runevision.com/3d/include/particles/

Whoa! The long version. heh.
AS I see it the milky way portal has 9 Chevrons, 7 of which are used for a
7-symbol address. Actually this design could only have come from "myth leakage"
the reality of horizontal "Mills" or concentric circles that aligned symbols on
them, powered by the vortex created by nature spirits co-mingling from above
and below ... oops there i go again speaking truth unrecognizable to current
mortals.

I can handle assembly, clearly the challenge is in creating theses shapes to
assemble. You mention cylinder and I think need only give cylinder thickness.

cave-man wheel should be a primative, either a square torus or thick cylinder.
The sum of shapes and materials = what one has the ability to create.

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