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Home Tree II
1 February 2025
I wanted to get another view of the Home Tree, one that focussed on its flowers. I moved a copy of the V Ship above the flowers and defined a new camera. The camera was there to capture the V Ship flying just above flowers, the shot to reveal the entrance to the nesting sites (see below) that are within the flowers.
With the usual amount of work and rework I got a render I was happy with. That became the poster below.
Home Tree I
29 January 2025
Owning a V Ship would be fantastic - the ultimate Galaxy Gran Turismo. But really they are designed for slightly more serious activities than sight-seeing. They are way finders and explorers. So I felt it necessary to give them something to explore. Simply "other worlds" is too big so I settled on the idea of a tree, a big tree.
An alien tree needs to be recognisable to us as a tree, or the image is going to get really confusing. But it needs to be different enough to look alien. It must look like something that could come from another world. To that end, it doesn't need to work in the same way as the trees we know i.e. it doesn't need to photosynthesise and so doesn't need to have green leaves. In the end I came up with the concept of the "Home Tree".
Home Trees grow in shallow seas typically hundreds of kilometers from land. They can reach 300 meters in height. They have a symbiotic relationship with the giant Ocean Corsair birds. The best way to think of a Corsair is to imagine a cross between a Frigate bird and Osprey - they are deep ocean hunters who stay airborne most of their lives. When they decide to breed they use the flowers of a Home Tree as nesting sites.
The birds benefit because the flowers provide ready made nests in the ocean. The birds don't need to bring materials to build nests. The opening in a flower always points away from the wind. The tree benefits from having the birds because the flowers act like pitcher plants. Anything that falls from the nest part of the flower into the chamber in the middle of the flower is devoured. This includes guano, egg shells, scraps of food and even the odd Corsair chick.
In Australia we have some amazing trees such as the Ghost Gum. Their bark can be beautifully smooth and range in colour from light grey to green to brown and red. I gave my Home Tree an Australian bark. Putting all that togther, this is my first Home Tree poster.
V Ships
25 January 2025
V Ships are small, two person spaceships used for way finding, reconnaisance and exploration. Although only about twelve meters in diameter, they carry the equipment that lets them move faster than light speed through the travel dimensions. The Verdajuvel Galaxsia carries four V Ships.
A V Ship has dual redundant Tokamaks. These produce power which is regulated by and transmitted to the Fractal antenna via an Energy Comb. The fields created by the antenna allow the ship to grab and move through SpaceTime.
Fractals, by definition, look pretty much the same at any level of magnification. This gets difficult to implement in Blender simply because the mesh gets too complex. In this case I defined the first level of the fractal antenna shape.
In the image below, the V Ship Green Man has just materialised from the travel dimensions into the upper atmosphere of the planet Laxfala. Laxfala is believed to be most Earth like planet discovered to date.
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