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I posted this link before in the Youtube thread in FC, but I felt that it deserved a little more attention, as I think Tsu was the only one to see it before it was buried in the thread.

So, someone did an incredible computer-generated model of the interior of Rama, from Clarke's Rendezvous With Rama and its sequels. It's here on Youtube, and it's definitely worth a watch. There's also a website with a "making of" PDF and a few pictures of the model, including shots of the Rama at "night" and "winter".

For those of you who've never heard of it, Rama is basically a fully enclosed O'Neill Cylinder, 50km long and 20km in diameter from the above mentioned novel by Clarke.

Yeah, I saw it. Love it.

The book ruled, BTW, for anyone here who hasn't checked it out. There was also a mid-90's puzzle game based on it that I liked.

Love projects like this - combining art and technology to recreate fictional words / objects. I once created a (very very) basic model of Star City from 3001, with everything to scale, just so I could get an idea of the size of the thing.

Rama is one of my fave fictional worlds, though only really liked the first book.

I forgot they made other books.

Tsukiyumi wrote:I forgot they made other books.

It's best you don't try to remember them.

I guess it's good that I don't, then.