Ontploffing Boer @ontploffing@writing.exchange

Making terrain progress for this city illustration. But I have no real idea how to get color or shading in #blender, especially if the setting sun's light will be coming from down-valley, to the bottom-right of this image.

Learning Blender lowpoly modeling and sculpting to get a better terrain reference for this city, because building a huge 1 inch to 100 foot scale model in the workroom floor just isn't high-fidelity enough.
That scale works out to 1 Lego stud to 20 feet, and that's an awkward scale to build Lego buildings in to populate the city. It's also hard to place buildings on sloped cardboard/cloth hills.

So, back to Blender, and converting low-fidelity topo maps to terrain.

In my continued quest to understand #Zeonism, I've at last finished watching #Gundam ZZ.
For a break, I watched Gundam F91, which focuses on the scheme to establish Cosmo Babylonia. It feels thematically related to Zeon, but there's no explicit Zeonism. Yet I wonder if I should include it in this review of Zeonism.

Writing little history-blurbs for cities on the seashore, towns on the river, metropoles by the bay.

Of course, if you give a worldbuilder a building, he'll want to make a city. Which is why I'm now dinking about with #Leaflet again, to make a slippy map showing all the different approximate sites I'm considering for placing the city that holds this convention center.
#worldbuilding

This is the in-progress physical model of the convention center, which I'll use as an art reference for the three-ish outside shots of the convention center.

Worldbuilding post updated with my notes on the final dimensions of the pyramid, an aside on geometry, and musings on how to model the thing: https://irradiate.space/worldbuilding/convention-center-for-acrobatics/#final-dimensions

The musings haven't changed; I'm just writing them down outside Mastodon.

Okay, 1:3 width:height right triangle ratio makes most sense for the central atrium. Something closer to 1:sqrt(3) for the outside, I think.

With the dimensions decided, now I can put a model in situ somewhere in a Minecraft world, or a physical model in a blanket-fort land of my own construction.

Conversations in the #Radchdome today led me to contemplate a Looney Tunes/Dune crossover.

Here's a ~150-word opening scene I wrote: https://archiveofourown.org/works/24373534

And here's my photo edit of Yosemite Sam in Sting's codpiece:

Artblock status: "I wonder if it's because the arting computer is in the wrong room in the house."

Thanks to once-upon-a-time suggestion by @cryptovexillologist I'm now reading Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities", which is a real trip. So many different ways of looking at cities, not as built environments, but as the stories they tell.