 This Can't be Right, Renraku arcology from google earth |
 Nov 11 2006, 08:18 AM
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My suspension of disbelief got all stretched out and now it's ruined! :(
I just got google earth so of course the first thing I did was go to Seattle and see what things would look like acording to shadowrun cannon. Things look dumb. Please open the linkhere, Renraku Ark 3d I'm going to run the Renraku Shutdown soon and GE has this cool 3D building feature if you turn it on you get to see the buildings and also the terrain in 3d. You can also draw your own vector paths and shapes with some limited 3d right in the browser So I looked in the book and got the stats for the Arc. I got the footprint from the map in the old Seattle Source book and the stats for hight 969 meters, from the same book. I've tried this a couple of different ways now and I always come up with the same thing, A monsterous building that you can see from space. I think the ark is cool and "300 floors" is an interesting Idea but seriously I don't think the earth's crust would take the mass of a building this big. The pic I uploaded is big and it's a .tiff I'll make a lower resolution jpeg and a couple of different views tomorrow. What do you think? |
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OneTrikPony This Can't be Right Nov 11 2006, 08:18 AM
MYST1C Nice, but you got the shape wrong.
The SCIRE is no... Nov 11 2006, 10:00 AM mfb keep in mind that it's not just 300 stories pl... Nov 11 2006, 11:44 AM Fortune QUOTE (mfb @ Nov 11 2006, 10:44 PM) as i reca... Nov 11 2006, 11:58 AM Dog Seems to me that if a person is willing to accept ... Nov 11 2006, 02:22 PM Herald of Verjigorm It's an arcology, the whole premise is that a ... Nov 11 2006, 02:31 PM Kagetenshi QUOTE (OneTrikPony @ Nov 11 2006, 03:18 AM) M... Nov 11 2006, 05:03 PM Jrayjoker How does the crust of the Earth support a mountain... Nov 11 2006, 05:29 PM Firestorm I think we are already building 500m+ high buildin... Nov 11 2006, 06:37 PM OneTrikPony QUOTE Nice, but you got the shape wrong.
I know t... Nov 11 2006, 07:00 PM Kagetenshi Yes, your cube looks about right. The key part I ... Nov 11 2006, 07:53 PM RunnerPaul QUOTE (OneTrikPony) What do you think?
Entirel... Nov 11 2006, 08:26 PM Demerzel Frank Lloyd Wright proposed a mile tall tower call... Nov 11 2006, 08:35 PM hyzmarca The design is architecturally feasible in general,... Nov 11 2006, 08:54 PM will_rj Perhaps you would like to read this thread...
htt... Nov 11 2006, 10:26 PM OneTrikPony Hi, working on an 11 step design, looks alot bette... Nov 11 2006, 10:27 PM Kagetenshi The idea isn't quite that old, but it was an I... Nov 11 2006, 10:53 PM OneTrikPony Sorry this took me so long
If you're still in... Nov 12 2006, 12:35 AM Jack Kain Anyone recall the huge size of arcolgy's from ... Nov 12 2006, 01:32 AM Demerzel I think that possibly one of the other issues that... Nov 12 2006, 02:02 AM OneTrikPony I'm working on puting more shadowrun buildings... Nov 12 2006, 06:06 AM mfb i've toyed with GE, mainly trying to find plac... Nov 12 2006, 08:12 AM DV8 QUOTE (Herald of Verjigorm) It's an arcology, ... Nov 12 2006, 08:45 AM OneTrikPony Honestly I didn't know what to expect. I'v... Nov 13 2006, 07:08 AM DV8 I'm guessing the Aztech pyramid would rank up ... Nov 13 2006, 08:09 AM hyzmarca QUOTE (OneTrikPony) Again I have no concept of wha... Nov 13 2006, 08:16 AM mfb to add to what hyzmarca said, an arcology basicall... Nov 13 2006, 08:35 AM Dog I can understand where OneTrikPony is coming from.... Nov 13 2006, 02:21 PM PlatonicPimp One real problem with arcolog design is light tran... Nov 13 2006, 04:06 PM Kagetenshi That's… I think you're putting some of tha... Nov 13 2006, 04:08 PM PlatonicPimp Yes, I am prone to exageration.
replace "cr... Nov 13 2006, 04:17 PM Angelone They have some special material in the Arc that tr... Nov 13 2006, 04:18 PM Kagetenshi Also, keep in mind the number of workers who won... Nov 13 2006, 04:41 PM mfb re: natural light, there are mood disorders which ... Nov 13 2006, 05:19 PM Dog Lots of workplaces nowadays have no natural light.... Nov 13 2006, 07:59 PM Angelone QUOTE (Dog) What about high-definition wallscreens... Nov 14 2006, 04:37 AM Dog Maybe. Depends on the nature of the problem.
I... Nov 14 2006, 05:05 AM Slump I certainly don't prefer natural light. I sou... Nov 14 2006, 11:11 AM Lindt Actually the concept of an Arch. is VERY macro. N... Nov 15 2006, 07:44 PM eidolon I'm more worried about the HUGE FLOATING CAMER... Nov 15 2006, 09:08 PM Lindt Your thinking of SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder. Nov 16 2006, 02:26 PM eidolon Hmmm. That sounds interesting, but I'm almost... Nov 16 2006, 02:39 PM mfb QUOTE (eidolon)SAD is the one about "depresse... Nov 16 2006, 06:42 PM Lindt Its actually more prevalent the farther north you ... Nov 16 2006, 09:47 PM Kagetenshi I've done it. No ill effects. By contrast, tho... Nov 16 2006, 09:55 PM Fortune I'm usually a night owl, and sometime can go w... Nov 16 2006, 10:30 PM Dog There are plenty of people not affected by SAD, bu... Nov 16 2006, 10:53 PM eidolon QUOTE (mfb) it's not the temperature, it's... Nov 16 2006, 11:19 PM Kagetenshi Well, December also has that whole "holiday s... Nov 16 2006, 11:41 PM PlatonicPimp Like I said, it may be that 95% of people would be... Nov 16 2006, 11:53 PM Kagetenshi QUOTE (PlatonicPimp) a 5% chance that a work envir... Nov 17 2006, 12:09 AM Herald of Verjigorm QUOTE (PlatonicPimp) Like I said, it may be that 9... Nov 17 2006, 02:06 AM mfb if you can determine why that 5% is driven batty, ... Nov 17 2006, 03:16 AM PlatonicPimp I wish I could argue this a little better, but I... Nov 17 2006, 06:02 AM Dog So an arcology could very likely look less tower-y... Nov 17 2006, 01:08 PM PlatonicPimp Paolo soleri's origional arcologies were usual... Nov 18 2006, 01:28 AM Dog A hemisphere seems like a weird choice, then. Doe... Nov 18 2006, 05:03 PM PlatonicPimp It's a hollow hemisphere: think of a bowl, cut... Nov 18 2006, 06:29 PM RunnerPaul QUOTE (Dog) A hemisphere seems like a weird choice... Nov 18 2006, 08:29 PM mfb QUOTE (PlatonicPimp)But just because most dumpshoc... Nov 18 2006, 08:32 PM fistandantilus3.0 QUOTE (mfb) besides, it's a dark future. Renra... Nov 18 2006, 08:57 PM Kagetenshi If you read the rules for background count, any he... Nov 18 2006, 09:00 PM
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