Alain <aze### [at] qwertyorg> wrote:

> > Some tweaks after I realized the people and some other objects were out of scale
> > with each other! Doh!!
> >
> Time to close it and do a radiosity render using the bright central beam
> as your light source.
>
> Now that I can more clearly apreciate the intended dimentions, my
> initial comments about transportation are getting even tronger. It's
> conciderably less tham 1 Km in length. On foot, you can probably go from
> just about anywhere to anywhere on an average of about 10 minutes. I
> also think that the maglevs tracks soult turn when they reatch the end
> caps. If not, then there must be terminal stations at those points.

My original plan was to have the tracks loop around to the left for a while and
then continue in the opposite direction on the adjacent track. But I'm probably
not going to model that very soon. Maybe later.


> The inside windows in the end cap must curve inward MUCH more to resist
> the air pressure. Even if there is air between the hull and iner shell,
> it's needed to prevent them bursting in case of a catastrophic hull breatch.
>
> If the space between the iner shell and the hull is presurised, then the
> outher windows will need to bulge out like gigantic bubbles similar to
> the geodesic domes you already have.

I will see about curving the glass more as that's relatively simple to do. The
space between the two hulls is not pressurized, BTW. The outer is to protect the
inner from harm.


> Alain

Thanks again!!


Mike

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