Art inspiration album

[impaktor]

OK, not many pictures, but just the idea is pretty inspiring to me at least. NASA: cloud cities of Venus

[Tichy]

Nice mecha design: http://www.simonstalenhag.se/

[bszlrd]

Just stumbled upon this:

And it comes from a very nice space blog.

[FluffyFreak]

Great find nozmajner!

[FluffyFreak]

In case people are looking for a good source of textures, here are a bunch that Pixar give away for free (Copyright Pixar One Twenty Eight by Pixar Animation Studios is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.)

Andy

[FluffyFreak]

Probably more on here but lots of John Berkey available in quite high resolutions.

[Geraldine]

Well if its inspiration folk are looking for there is little better than the Terran Trade Authority books! Or this video to give you ideas. ;)

[impaktor]

I don't know if this would interest you @FluffyFreak, posted in/on/at? IRC a few days back:

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<Droz> BTW if anyone here are interested in procedural generation tech i can
       link some stuff
       http://blog.duangle.com/2015/04/towards-realtime-deformable-worlds-why.html

Although now we're drifting a bit far from topic, unless we consider programming an "art".

[bszlrd]

Programming can be a form of art, if you ask me. :)

Also I found some nice space station images on deviantart by Glenn Clovis.

[bobtheterrible]

Also I found some nice space station images on deviantart by Glenn Clovis.

I always liked O'Neill cylinders even though they hardly ever showed up in TV/Film sci-fi.
Interstellar sort of included the idea in the closing scenes but you didnt get to see it from the outside.

On a side note, has anyone considered the idea of Elevator Stations or Tethered Stations??