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[[Delta ²k5]]

My newest airport project... will be my largest so far. I'm still waiting for some improved taxiway markings, improved airport roads (And the gateways) and the RMIP3...



The main complex will expand downwards. Also there will be a second terminal building, a cargo center and a military ramp. I think that I'll make four large runways.

[Terring7]

Sorry, no images. But let your imagination translate my words into images. I'm working into a Major Diaries, maybe published in August. The only thing i need to report is that this Major Diaries will be... Out of this world!!

[sim-al2]

That would awesome to do in Simcity...

[FrankU]

Reminds me of Larry Niven's Ringworld, or Bob Shaw's Dyson Sphere, but isn't both of them.... Try to remember  what SciFi novel this world is in.... Don't know, but it's a well known type of artificial world. I'm curious what you are going to do with it. Did you build a hollow region? 

[Terring7]

It's an O'Neil Cylinder, a proposed space colony with 20.000.000 residents! I don't think it's possible to remake it as a Simcity region... but i will try it!

[FrankU]

Ah! Thanks. I didn't know the name, but I surely read siome novels that occur is this kind of cylinder.
I'll watch your developments closely!

It can't be done, but I'll try anyway! Thats the spirit.
Thats the way to discover America, despite the fact that everyonen knows there is nothing on the other side of the ocean....

[tankmank]

loving the Airport [Delta ²k5] and Terring7 that looks amazing and would be a real chalange in SC4

This is my current project, it is about 60% finished so far but still a lot of LE and what not to do

[ecoba]

Looks really great, Josh. 

Ethan

[Terring7]

This is a Le Corbusier's idea about the planning of the railroads for a city.



I think I'll try it

I also have the time i need to build the O'Neil Cylinder



Is there a tutorial for the Terraformer to make it?

[Terring7]

Sorry for the double post, but i just finished a beta version of the Space Island 3 (O'Neill Cylinder). Before the images, here are some information from Wikipedia.

The O'Neill cylinder, also called an Island Three habitat, is a space habitat design proposed by physicist Gerard K. O'Neill in his book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space. In the book O'Neill proposes the colonization of space for the 21st century, using materials from the Moon. An O'Neill cylinder consists of two very large, counter-rotating cylinders, each 5 miles (8 km) in diameter and 20 miles (32 km) long, that are connected at each end by a rod via a bearing system. They rotate so as to provide artificial gravity via centrifugal force on their inner surfaces.

The cylinders rotate to provide artificial gravity  on their inner surface. Due to their very large radii, the habitats would rotate about forty times an hour, simulating a standard Earth gravity. Research on human factors in rotating reference frames indicate that almost no-one (at such low rotation speeds) would experience motion sickness due to coriolis forces  acting on the inner ear. People would be able to detect spinward and antispinward directions by turning their heads, and any dropped items would appear to be deflected by a few centimetres. The central axis of the habitat would be a zero gravity region, and it was envisaged that it would be possible to have recreational facilities located there.

The habitat was planned to have oxygen at partial pressures roughly like the Earth's air, 20% of the Earth's sea-level air pressure. Nitrogen would also be included to add a further 30% of the Earth's pressure. This half-pressure atmosphere would save gas and reduce the needed strength and thickness of the habitat walls. At this scale, the air within the cylinder and the shell of the cylinder provide adequate shielding against cosmic rays.

Large mirrors are hinged at the back of each stripe of window. The unhinged edge of the windows points toward the Sun. The purpose of the mirrors is to reflect sunlight  into the cylinders through the windows. Night is simulated by opening the mirrors, letting the window view empty space; this also permits heat to radiate to space. During the day, the reflected Sun appears to move as the mirrors move, creating a natural progression of Sun angles. Although not visible to the naked eye, the Sun's image might be observed to rotate due to the cylinder's rotation. The light reflected from the mirrors is polarized, which might confuse bees. To permit light to enter the habitat, large windows run the length of the cylinder. These were not to be single panes, but would be made up of many small sections, to prevent catastrophic damage, and so the aluminum or steel window frames can take most of the stresses of the air pressure of the habitat. Occasionally a meteorite might break one of these panes. This would cause some loss of the atmosphere, but calculations showed that this would not be an emergency, due to the very large volume of the habitat.

The habitat and its mirrors must be aimed at the sun. O'Neill and his students carefully worked out a method of continuously turning the colony 360 degrees per orbit without using rockets that discard reaction mass. First, the pair of habitats can be rolled by operating the cylinders as momentum wheels. If one habitat's rotation is slightly off, the two cylinders will rotate about each other. Once the plane formed by the two axes of rotation is perpendicular (in the roll axis) to the orbit, then the pair of cylinders can be yawed to aim at the sun by exerting a force between the two sunward bearings: away from each other will cause both cylinders to gyroscopically precess, and the system will yaw in one direction, towards each other will cause yaw in the other direction. The counter-rotating habitats have no net gyroscopic effect, and so this slight precession can continue for the habitat's orbit, keeping it aimed at the sun.

O.K., it's impossible to make a cylinder-like region, so i turn this 3D environment...



... to a 2D region. Green for land, black for the "windows" and gray for the base-connectors.







Remember, it's a beta version, so please don't complain! Now I'm going to make it a bit bigger and terraform the land... and remove some parts to make gaps for the "windows".

[Ciuu96]

Terring, that is great! A huge difference to "normal" cities, and i believe that it's gonna become very nice according to your earlier work! I really want to see this finished!

[FrankU]

Well, when you have filled up the cylinder, you might try a ringworld: a ring around the sun with plenty of room for life in the inside of it. Read Larry Niven's Ringworld stories.

[Terring7]

CRAZY LOTS!!

Lots so crazy, that will drives you crazy!!
Images are coming soon

So you have a great city, with plenty of skyscrapers and factories. Great job . However you just make the mistake to take a tour. Why "mistake"? Because you'll soon notice parks, Parthenons, tiny airports, fire stations e.t.c.. "Wait a minute, i didn't build them!" You have right, you don't build them. Your Sims build them!!!

"Crazy Lots" is a collection of lots that will allow Sims to build their privet temples, spaceports, power plants, police stations, parks e.t.c.. They will be grownable commercial and industrial lots (and maybe residential too) that will spiced up your city. Of course there are not 100% functional! If, for example, you notice a tiny grownable airport, it will not work as an airport, so don't worry. Some of these lots are realistic, like the privet football field. Others will be totally crazy, like a Capitol Records build by a simple Sim

CRAZY LOTS, lots so crazy... that will drives you crazy



And a better version of the O'Neil Cylinder is coming soon

[travismking]

just started relotting a rail station, but not really sure what I want to put, the original lot is fairly boring so I want to spice it up but not quite sure how to do that

[tag_one]

Well there are plenty of ways to add some life to a lot. Imo the best way to add some life is adding animated people props. You can find them in the begin of the prop list. I thought they started with "amill" or something similar. You can also add some other things like a bus station, a taxi stand or some kiosks

[Terring7]

The O'Neill Cylinder is ready!!











I hope that you like it

[MattyFo]

Really cool terring7, are you planning to start an MD about the O'Neil Cylinder?  I think it would be a real cool idea and you could write up a great story about it.

- Matt

[Terring7]

Glad to see that you like it
I'm planning already a Mayor Diary and the O'Neill Cylinder will be one of the many worlds and colonies we'll visit. Now I'm waiting for SimMars Beta 3 to release. Gimme some time and you'll got a great reward

[cubby420]

Your doing things just about no one else is trying Terring7. I love it. Keep it up. I'll be an avid fan if you post a world hopping, galaxy exploring MD. 

[Nexis4Jersey]

Working on a Small Rural Town