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This tool allows individually designed buildings to be uploaded and rendered into an AI generated cityscape. Very impressive.
https://www.d5render.com/
Using tools like this, we could design a Martian city right here on Earth and have all of the design elements worked out.
"Plan and prepare for every possibility, and you will never act. It is nobler to have courage as we stumble into half the things we fear than to analyse every possible obstacle and begin nothing. Great things are achieved by embracing great dangers."
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For Calliban re #351
The link you provided in Post #351 is for Windows. I think it deserves it's own topic, and that it has growth potential. I don't know anything about it yet, because i work primarily with Linux, but i do have and support Windows, so will try it on a Windows machine later.
i'll ask SpaceNut to think about where he wants to set up a topic for this.
If you have a preference for a category where this would fit, you are welcome to make the siting decision.
If we do pursue this, I hope you will have time to keep it going. We do not currently have a lot of active members, but SpaceNut and I have been slowly building momentum toward increased membership.
I am interested in productive members who are doing things and who are willing to support others.
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For Calliban re new Suspended Roof topic...
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=11235
Of all our members, it seems to me you may be best qualified to add substance to this new topic.
I am hoping your previous work on cast iron would extend to this structure.
It seems likely you would need stronger material for the cables, and that would require energy, but a city like this is going to happen only if there is sufficient energy available to splurge on metalurgy. Assuming you have enough energy, am i correct in thinking a city scape using suspended roofing with regolith cover for pressure balance and radiation protection would make sense?
The alternative is to dig underground, and it seems to me that unless huge natural cavities are found, it would ** always ** take more energy for excavation than would be required for the suspended roof concept.
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