Before generating any eye-sores, let us begin, as before, with a completely accurate picture of:<\/p>\n
The Lonely Expanse of Space<\/h3>\n
<\/div>Exactly the same thing as last time, but I like maintaining the tempo of these posts. Speaking of tempo, I know what you’re thinking, so let’s just get this right out of the way. I’m not making one of these every week.
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<\/div>Or these.
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<\/div>Or maybe you were thinking of this?
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<\/div>\nBecause I’m not going to make one of those either.<\/p>\n
Or, perhaps this?
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<\/div>Because, I’m not going to waste any time making any of those things. I know you want me to, but I’m just not going to do it. And the more unusual ring-standing-on-edge configuration: and the rarely-seen ring-face-on configuration: And, um, that’s it! I mean, you wouldn’t want a ring-at-an-odd-angle-so-you-aren’t-even-sure-which-end-is-up configuration would you? That would be… um, oh, I see here in my notes… The interesting thing about the eye-sores is they have a clear axis, but are also perfectly symmetrical around that axis. It makes the orientation more significant, but also somewhat simpler than for cubes. Not that we want to get rid of cubes entirely. You may have noticed that I’m still using them to adorn the eye-sores, and I’ve got a few new tricks for that as well. The first is chamfering the edges (here we go with the technical language! It’s basically just a first order bevel, which is “rounding off” the edges, but with only a 45 degree cut instead of a fully rounded smooth edge) which gives it that tasty manufactured look. The second is the solidify modifier, which adds thickness to a flat surface. These two can result in some pretty neat geometries. Part of it is the elemental nature of the designs themselvesit’s only a slightly modified cube after all<\/span>. But another part has to do with something else that I’ve been putting off talking about because it has a tendency to overwhelm all the other design aspects to the degree that one might begin to wonder if anything else matters at all.<\/p>\n
\nSo, with that out of the way, let’s play with a simple ring. Instead of going all the way through a design as beforehull, engines, crew, cargo, guns<\/span> I’m going to just outline a few rough designs for each configuration. So, we have the popular ring-lying-on-its-side configuration:
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\nHmm. Okay. Is that really what it’s called?
\nWell then, here’s the wonkus-donkus-eye-sore configuration:
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