Art inspiration album

[FluffyFreak]

Some Elite Dangerous pre-production space stations mockups and ideas
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/1OPRK

Really interesting ones in there.

[bszlrd]

These are quite interesting for sure.

[Spiffor]

I agree, they're really nice

[FluffyFreak]

https://www.deviantart.com/kuldarleement/gallery/

[FluffyFreak]

Ship spinner https://why485.itch.io/ship-spinning

[bszlrd]

Heh, those freelancer ships :D

[FluffyFreak]

This is some fantastic style and tooling using Houdini to help procedurally generate aircraft right down to the rivets, nuts and bolts!

http://www.procjam.com/seeds/issues/3/koz.txt.html
http://www.the-working-man.org/2017/04/ ... oject.html
http://www.the-working-man.org/2015/04/ ... eling.html

It's not open source, and I mentioned it in IRC, but I think it's a great tool to help artists if they're into Houdini, procedural generation etc.

[impaktor]

https://publicdomainreview.org/collecti ... the-1970s/

[FluffyFreak]

Super-hi-res versions are available direct from NASA too https://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/70sArtH ... t/art.html

Also there's the book https://www.amazon.co.uk/High-Frontier- ... 8&qid=&sr= which is essential reading.

I wonder how much building the structures would cost, and how long it'd take, nowadays using revised real world cost estimates using SpaceX?

[impaktor]

Not only do I have the book, it is also signed by the author :)