So...IP/Copyright infringement from X Rebirth?
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Pfft, they haven't even finished putting it together yet
It was a flatpack kit from Ikea
they couldn't find part BYa11a on the diagram and it all went to pot from there Which ripped off Foundation.
Which probably ripped off Story of Days to Come for all I know. There are certainly some parallels there.
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Love that film especially that last half.Then who Contact (1997 movie) ripped off?
And coruscant is a 'homage' to Trantor in Asimov's Foundation series...
There are centuries of urban design studies focused on the circle, which design students will be familiar with.
Ebenezer Howard's plan for a garden city from 1902:
Even fabled Atlantis in the writings of Plato was constructed in a series of concentric circles divided by walls and waterways.
Its as public domain as ideas come.
That said, this sort of large scale planning requires a command economy (communism/corporatism/hive minds) of sorts, which I hope FD's procedural planet surface developers bear in mind. A technologically advanced libertarian planet surface would be very different.
Ebenezer Howard's plan for a garden city from 1902:
Even fabled Atlantis in the writings of Plato was constructed in a series of concentric circles divided by walls and waterways.
Its as public domain as ideas come.
That said, this sort of large scale planning requires a command economy (communism/corporatism/hive minds) of sorts, which I hope FD's procedural planet surface developers bear in mind. A technologically advanced libertarian planet surface would be very different.
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Circle cities in advanced societies arn't new.
This is a typical city on Vulcan, portrayed in the star trek animated series. 1974
As to looking like coruscant, what doesn't these days?
The entire planet is a city, a mile deep. there is no 'land'. trillions live there. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Coruscant
This is a typical city on Vulcan, portrayed in the star trek animated series. 1974
As to looking like coruscant, what doesn't these days?
The entire planet is a city, a mile deep. there is no 'land'. trillions live there. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Coruscant
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Looks like Vatican ripped off someone as well then
Me too...gets pretty intensive if you lost a family member too
Me too...gets pretty intensive if you lost a family member too
Those who feel the circles are ripped off from other circles, obviously belong in the Federation, boxed in with their more original squares.
I would not be surprised if some people here believe that David Braben invented the circle
ty for the friendly good morning lol =)
Some concentric rings older than stone henge.
Isaac Asimov, with his descriptions of the planet 'Trantor', seat of the Galactic Empire of the Foundation series, as well as Earth described in the Robots series.
I'm sure there are older ideas though.
The first image I can think of showing circular planet wide cities is an illustration for one if Isaac Asimov's Foundation series by noted sci-fi artist Michael Whelan in the early 80s.
For real world circular cities, recent ones include New Dehli, Brasilia, Canberra; old ones go all the way back to the earliest settlements such as Skara Brae (the one in Scotland, not the one in Ultima/Britania)
Go SBR!
Star Wars ripped off cropfields!
Lol, okay - this thread appears to have drifted off into hyperbole-land. I get it, circle cities are most likely public domain.
Though, I was referring to X Rebirth and how it looks like they just changed the color saturation from red to blue, and toned down the resolution because, you know, they're Egosoft.
Though, I was referring to X Rebirth and how it looks like they just changed the color saturation from red to blue, and toned down the resolution because, you know, they're Egosoft.
Spacestation design
Can we have a spacestation that looks like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqfwPQvb7KA
Can we have a spacestation that looks like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqfwPQvb7KA