I've started reading the first book and to those who say there isn't a cylindrical sea along with the manhatton island, should look more carefully at this glorious model. Too. Bad the ladders and staircases are missing from the north end, however, and as for that space shuttle...
Although, as others have mentioned, the Rama of the book does not have the landscape and city features shown here, I do have to admit that this model you've created is extremely cool in its own way. Great job!
While adding the geographical features like rivers, hills, and expansive cities certainly helps make the sheer scale or Rama more apparent, it's important to note that at no point in any of the Rama books does the interior resemble this. The only time any part of Rama would have had cities or lakes like this would have been after the first visit with the Node, but it would have been cut into sections at that point and not resembled this. Previous to the Node encounter though it was featureless.
It's a good rendering but having read all the books looks pretty much nothing like it's described, the human colony was in a giant dome on the floor of rama's north end, not spread out like this at all. Where's the cylindrical sea? New York? The Octospiders domain in the southern side? Shame.
@IshowFUNNYvids of course rama didn't look like that, i was talking about the size and the proportions. The cities were completely alien to the explorers, but using a known context (as the island of Manhattan) can be usefull to compare sizes.
@IshowFUNNYvids Indeed. The first one was an amazing example of hard sci-fi, simple idea, well narrated, intriguing, fantastic...
Rama II was... well, dissapointing. The characters were strange, the plot was stupid (the motivation of the characters within the context didn't made sense) and the narration just jumped from one character to another... almost randomly.
Also, I really tried but... I just can't pass the 30th page of 'The Gardens of Rama'...
A quick tour of Heaven is similar, except that light glows out of the landscape from the presence of God, the water is living by itself, and movement is created by the presence of God as it draws you in. "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one cometh to the father but by me."
@cusanusnicolas You made a mistake interjecting a RELIGIOUS sentiment in a depiction of an SF novel. Take your Angry Whipping Jesus God somewhere else. A guy who loses his cool and whips people is never a role-model for anyone, and we're free to say so nowadays!
this isn't Rama, but a nice rendition of what a cylinder space colony would look like. also you should make it into an mmo, racing around that looks like it'd be fun.
I don't want to say this, but the interior of Rama as described in Arthur C. Clarke's novel is a metal and sylicon world, nothing living inside, although a farming land is described in "the top". Some people pretending being contacted by aliens stated hearing that "Rama is angular, malignant", as opposed to the curves of Ying-Yang, a symbol of harmony for some cultures. Chinese believe that goldenfish move in arches, but devils move in straight lines. Are ghosts or worse the inhabitants of Rama?
i don't think this is accurate, although this does look very good The book never mentions fields trees, houses. It never mentions the smaller rivers either. Though this is absolutely beautiful trust me I'm not trying to down u. This might be more realistic after they establish the colony on Rama, except for New York. but otherwise. nice work!
Great video - the scale is the best I've ever seen and really gives the gigantic impression of the huge cylindrical core - 1 point if I may, I just felt the colour scheme/bridges/fields were a little 'Earth-like'... but then again, if that's how everyone else sees it perhaps it's me that is visualising it wrong.. so Bravo!
imagine the selfsufficiency of these people. they dont have a planet to suck its resources dry. They should Create the resources they wish to destroy. I think these people really know the value of life and the value of existance. Clarke did too! Salute to Clarke ! Salute to Clarke! Salute to Clarke!
i think its funny that you people are calling this guy an idiot. when you are making yourselves look dumb. there was more than one rama book. the others had citys and hills in them. just goes to show you should think before calling somebody else an idiot.
I know some people are dumb. Also I have read the books as well all of them. But even if the books never said rolling hills who cares? I mean it's still an awesome model no matter what.
Besides the RAMA in the book people were speaking off was a bit boring. I also played the game made by the writer of the books. It was a bit bland looking. But I think the one in the first few books was a sort of one that was not totally finished inside.
sulljoh1, "majestic" sums it up. so what if it isn't "accurate" or deviates from the "facts" (it's fiction, for crissake). It's one hell of an achievement. Besides, does anyone believe that Hollywood wouldn't alter the "facts" if they filmed Rama?
Of course they would. But they wouldn't actually make the chemical processing plant dubbed New York into a real Manhattan. It is supposed to be a mysterious alien world after all.
This is definitly an intresting video. But: You've got the entire video wrong from the start. The landscape had fields, but only on the south side of the river. Everything in Rama had a metalic dull gray look. There where no hills, there where 3 straight valeys where the light was emitted from. In the south side there where 6 small mountains around a big mountain pointing towards the north hemisphere. It Is an intresting conceptual video though, but as far fetched from Rama as ever possible.
Did you even read the book? There is so much wrong with this video, ranging from way more than 3 stairways, to windows on new York buildings, to rivers, trees, and hills all over Rama. Next time you should actually get your facts straight before spending time and effort on something that will make you look like a total idiot if done wrong.
I didn't think there were supposed to be cities and fields inside Rama. I thought there was one complex in the middle of the cylinder and some weird primeval ooze.
if there was enough air pressure, then it wouldn't matter how much centripetal force there was. I would imagine the engineers on a place like this would give it a spin to generate a fore equal to 1G. so there is probably an easy calculation to figure out how much air they would need.
Yep, but it works the same way as Niven's Ringworld. The rotation provides artificial gravity. At least for Ringworld the pressure gradient is very much the same as for our earth. I calculated it.
The main difference would be that the gradient in the RAMA cylinder varies more and that Coriolis effects are more prevalent as the velocity gradient between the air layers is higher.
Where is the landscape from? As far as I remember RAMA never were compleatly occupied by human infrastructure. Or am I wrong? I while since I read the books.
I read the making of, and this apares to be a makers view of a Rama, and not a remake of how Rama in the book's was. Would have been cool though, if he made rama with the three different settlements as described in the book. But then again, the settlements were caped off from each other if I remember right? And so the entire lenght of the ship would not be viewable at the same time.
Each species had their own habitat, the Humans had a domed shaped habitat a few kilometers in circumference, the Avians had a vertical cylinder shaped habitat that and the octospiders had a colony that was a dome made out of plants and such. There was a giant barrier that reached all the way up to the point to where the crew from the Pinta couldn't see southern hemicylnder wall and it separated the Human habitat from the Avian one.
Not exactly. Rama is a closed Cylinder, Ringworld or the Ring in Halo are like Cylinders with open caps. Rama's atmosphere reaches up to the main axis of the cylinder, Ringworld's atmosphere is quite different from that.
I'm working on the Ringworld. At the moment I'm pretty busy with simulating and calculating the appearance of Ringworld's concave atmosphere which has some very weird properties. I'm very much interested if Niven's description of the Ringworld appearing as baby blue ring is correct or not :)
I'm also interested in Rendering the double planet of "Rocheworld" and the Neutron star-spaceship constellation described in "Dragon's Egg". Ah, I forgot the Gas torus world of Niven's "Integral Trees".
just too big to show it. Rama is 50km long. The Ringworld has oceans where there are islands which are maps of whole planets... IN REAL SIZE!!! The diameter of the Ringworld is about the same as the diameter of the sun!!!!
I know that. I meant the width. 1 million km. About the same as the sun. You can check the book. (im not a native english speaker and I had forgotten the word width)
Just in case some deluded retards (like gregjocka22) think that I am a paedophile I am deleting my comments.
I know that many people are as stupid as gregjocka22, and as predjudiced towards gays and autistics/other mental disability, and this is why I am deleting my harmless, politically correct comments.
I am not a paedophile, but I am going to defend it here.
If you are a paedophile you have a sexual attraction to infants, if you are homosexual you have a sexual attraction to the same gender, if you are heterorsexual you have a sexual attraction to the opposite gender. Who's to say that paedophiles aren't born paedophiles like gay and straight people are born the way they are?
There's nothing wrong with being a paedophile, commiting the act is what is wrong.
Who the fuck said I'm obsessed, I simply said you're an infant, and I don't even know who Arthur C. Clarke is, I simply enjoy space stuff. So go blow a chode you ignorant troll.
you do know that theres nothing you can say to gregjocka22 to actually make him shut up right? just ignore people like that. we all know that the book was great and it would make a great movie. thats all that matters.
Aw come on, fess up. Youre not really an ass bandit are you? I bet you would love to be the one in bangkok thrusting your steriod pumped wiener into some fresh thai schoolgirls pussy and then collecting her juices to bath in later on.... Now thats creepy!!..... lmao!!
Ahhh, i think i get it now... Your really a closet sci-fi fan who fantasises about being raped by A.C.Clarke for days on end like the filthy cum bag that you are. Dont worry tho, I doubt that he would of had a pecker big enough to even touch the sides of your black hole of a sphincter. Not surprised tho as you seem to know alot about skank hotels and underage whores......
BAHAHA!! I'm startin to think your a funny fucker (even for a raging donut puncher). But you either cant read or youve had so much cum squirted in your eyes that youve gone blind coz if you see what i wrote then thinking ol' A.C.Clarke as a "sicko perv" doesnt mean i support him. Altho i cant blame you for bieng a yank from yankyville, keep it real. ROFL!!!!
Brilliant visualisation, absolutely stunning! We can build these huge habitats using materials from near-earth asteroids, using them up so they can't collide with us and getting lots of space-based real estate into the bargain. Check out Gerard O'Neill's 'High Frontier' we can do this!
well the point is, imagine a world totally different with our earth. Imagine a earth is like a water glass which we live on the outer surface, Rama is exactly the reversed idea of the earth. Living inside the glass.
Rama is scientifically possible FUTURE space habitat using rotation as artificial gravity but i wonder about space debrie making a leak letting out the gas.Everyone asleep then suddenly they die water start to evaporate sky goes away and all living organisms expand to explotion
True, but if we were advanced enough to build this technology, then we would probably have sensors all over the ship to warn us of incoming debris long before it could hit and we would have a way to destroy the debris...it would be amazing if we actually did this though....quite awesome.
You have beautifully synthesized Gerard O'Neill's Model III cylindrical habitat design (which houses 10 million people) with the prescient fiction work of AC Clarke. It works for me, although 8/01 Manhattan may not be SO necessary. Now all Obama has to do is visualize sunsats as large black monoliths which position at geo to face the sun. Voila! There is your industry and the reason to build the extraterrestrial city. A home for the Star Child and his town mates in the new industry. Merci Eric.
this is going to be hard to swallow, its going to be hard to believe and yet its all true, there is one piece of the puzzle that every one is missing, I know about it because I screwed up a conspiracy happening at the Dept. of Immigration in San Francisco, A conspiracy involving the CIA and the NSA, a conspiracy which when they were finished they would erase 1000s of us citizens and seize there properties through INS, illegally, a conspiracy.
You have given me hope that the movie Rendezvous with Rama can be made! No thanks to director David Fincher who had dropped the Rama project and left a huge black void in the science fiction realm. I guess I'm stuck with Star Trek 53 1/2 and Vampire Lesbians from Gorebu in the near future. Thank you sir for a fine production. This fantastic Clarke novel is screaming out to be made. It would revive a otherwise dying dry sad market. God bless you Sir Arthur C. Clarke. I will miss him
I had a dream of this once. This is truly one of the most majestic things I've ever seen. It shows the connection between technology and nature in perfect balance in such a way that it takes my breath away.
Very nice! I would have loved to see more alien looking buildings and why did you recreate New York so exacting to the Earth version? Including the World Trade Center buildings?
Supermovie and great ideea to script from Arthur C. Clark (most genius man), this is the future, we must to help for this!!!! The movie must to be done!
Excellent work. I read this book when it first came out more than 20 years ago. Your vision matches what I've seen in my minds eye all these many years. It would be great yarn for the bigscreen
wow!! nice!! this would help me have a firm visualization as i read the book.. coz im reading it now and i find it hard to mentally construct some of the elaborations about the interior of Rama...
Hi adorion! The music is 'Miserere' by an up and coming soundtrack composer called Henry Jackman. It's based on 'Miserere' by Allegri. You can hear lots of his music on his website. Apparently he's three albums. Please would someone let me know where I could get hold of them.
I really love this video. Does anyone know where I can watch a good quality copy?
Could please anyone tell me sth. about the soundtrack of this animation? It is even as awesome as the video... Song name and / or composer would be great. Thanks a Lot!
Impressive! -This model really captures the enormity of the Rama vessel. I didn't feel like I was traveling in the book version, but I really enjoyed it. Thanks!
This was fine indeed. Arthur's book (RIP) was magnificent and offered concepts which have stuck with me today (basically, Rama is an inside-out earth)
They should make this into a movie.
den2003 1 week ago
I've started reading the first book and to those who say there isn't a cylindrical sea along with the manhatton island, should look more carefully at this glorious model. Too. Bad the ladders and staircases are missing from the north end, however, and as for that space shuttle...
den2003 1 week ago
Why is my penis on youtube?
MooradianProductions 1 month ago
Although, as others have mentioned, the Rama of the book does not have the landscape and city features shown here, I do have to admit that this model you've created is extremely cool in its own way. Great job!
jaholmes01 2 months ago
While adding the geographical features like rivers, hills, and expansive cities certainly helps make the sheer scale or Rama more apparent, it's important to note that at no point in any of the Rama books does the interior resemble this. The only time any part of Rama would have had cities or lakes like this would have been after the first visit with the Node, but it would have been cut into sections at that point and not resembled this. Previous to the Node encounter though it was featureless.
willy62687 4 months ago
Put something by Owl City in the background and it's complete.
Joeaho 6 months ago
It's a good rendering but having read all the books looks pretty much nothing like it's described, the human colony was in a giant dome on the floor of rama's north end, not spread out like this at all. Where's the cylindrical sea? New York? The Octospiders domain in the southern side? Shame.
GazzerethOfNazareth 6 months ago
So, all the light comes from giant pits on the ground? What about the stuff near the pits? That much radiation would set plants on fire.
SpazzyMcGee1337 7 months ago
Woah, I don't know anything about Rama but this is so cool, really inspiring. Maybe I'll pick up the book(s) sometime (:
DDay12G 7 months ago
Thanks to this, the future doesn't scare me anymore!
MismeretMonk 8 months ago
I've just read 'Rama II' and couldn't visualize the size, distance and proportions of the Rama cities.
This work is completely breathtaking. Amazing!
Pity that Mr. Clarke coulnd't see it. He'd be very proud :P
DoctorUltimatum 9 months ago
@DoctorUltimatum Im sorry but rama really didnt look like this... it had metallic soil and didnt look like earth at all!
IshowFUNNYvids 7 months ago
@IshowFUNNYvids of course rama didn't look like that, i was talking about the size and the proportions. The cities were completely alien to the explorers, but using a known context (as the island of Manhattan) can be usefull to compare sizes.
DoctorUltimatum 7 months ago
@DoctorUltimatum oh im sorry, i just thought that you thought thats what rama looked like! lol it is a VERY good book isnt it?
IshowFUNNYvids 7 months ago
@IshowFUNNYvids Indeed. The first one was an amazing example of hard sci-fi, simple idea, well narrated, intriguing, fantastic...
Rama II was... well, dissapointing. The characters were strange, the plot was stupid (the motivation of the characters within the context didn't made sense) and the narration just jumped from one character to another... almost randomly.
Also, I really tried but... I just can't pass the 30th page of 'The Gardens of Rama'...
DoctorUltimatum 7 months ago
@DoctorUltimatum i cant wait to read the third book! i hope its as intriguing as the first!
IshowFUNNYvids 7 months ago
Thanks! I loved those books but had a hard time visualizing Rama. This makes me want to go back and reread them.
LakotaCat 9 months ago
THANKS! I loved the Rama books but always had a hard time visualizing it. This makes me want to go back and reread the books now. Wonderful!
LakotaCat 9 months ago
it was the dawn of the third age of mankind.ten years after the earth mimbari war. the Babylon project was a dream giving form...
kosh1968 10 months ago
I just read the book and if I read correctly almost everything in Rama was metal, so why is here everything covered in fields...
If am correct only field was on south pole of Rama
SirDawar 1 year ago
A quick tour of Heaven is similar, except that light glows out of the landscape from the presence of God, the water is living by itself, and movement is created by the presence of God as it draws you in. "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one cometh to the father but by me."
cusanusnicolas 1 year ago
@cusanusnicolas What are you on?
Realfoxhawk 1 year ago
@cusanusnicolas You made a mistake interjecting a RELIGIOUS sentiment in a depiction of an SF novel. Take your Angry Whipping Jesus God somewhere else. A guy who loses his cool and whips people is never a role-model for anyone, and we're free to say so nowadays!
Dracopol 1 year ago
Comment removed
lexmark666 1 year ago
is there anything new here? or do i find myself in a 90ies self-appraising 3D geniusses hall?
phoebus1966 1 year ago
Thanks.. Really moving!!!
VanishedAsh 1 year ago
well, this might be how it was in rama 3 though... but the book sucked.
NUKE167 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Cool. It's an O'Neill Cylinder, proposed by physicist Gerard K. O'Neill in his book "The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space".
Other space-based colony types include the Stanford Torus, the Bernal Sphere, the Globus Cassus.
Then there's the Niven Ring where if you want to model it to scale, you need software and a CPU that both can handle floating-point operations.
cadman2300 1 year ago
this isn't Rama, but a nice rendition of what a cylinder space colony would look like. also you should make it into an mmo, racing around that looks like it'd be fun.
Drmofothegreat 1 year ago
I cant download this song, I get Zero hits on it !! Grr.. so awesome !!
FromDimmuLand 1 year ago
@FromDimmuLand Buy Civilization 4 ... this song is part of the soundtrack that comes with the game.;P
antred11 1 year ago
Rendering is terrible and there is no reference to the Ramans always doing things in threes.
Sparkwoodand21TV 1 year ago
That was like a religious experience.
singularwave 1 year ago
wow, just awesome !! :o
megahurtz30 1 year ago
I don't want to say this, but the interior of Rama as described in Arthur C. Clarke's novel is a metal and sylicon world, nothing living inside, although a farming land is described in "the top". Some people pretending being contacted by aliens stated hearing that "Rama is angular, malignant", as opposed to the curves of Ying-Yang, a symbol of harmony for some cultures. Chinese believe that goldenfish move in arches, but devils move in straight lines. Are ghosts or worse the inhabitants of Rama?
grosaymerich 1 year ago
i don't think this is accurate, although this does look very good The book never mentions fields trees, houses. It never mentions the smaller rivers either. Though this is absolutely beautiful trust me I'm not trying to down u. This might be more realistic after they establish the colony on Rama, except for New York. but otherwise. nice work!
hellopat100 1 year ago
Great video - the scale is the best I've ever seen and really gives the gigantic impression of the huge cylindrical core - 1 point if I may, I just felt the colour scheme/bridges/fields were a little 'Earth-like'... but then again, if that's how everyone else sees it perhaps it's me that is visualising it wrong.. so Bravo!
phillipbailey70 1 year ago
Nice job! Clearly not the actual Rama (the roads look a bit out of place) but VERY VERY NICE work! This was fantastic!
Denaries 1 year ago
This projekt is going to be realized! NO JOKE!!!
The real projekt has the name The O'Neill cylinder.
It will take around 150 years to build it.
Look for it a wikipedia.
MachineFight 1 year ago
I actually had a sense of vertigo when I first read 'Rendezvous' and the party first entered the main chamber.
It seems to be a book no-one can forget.
LaughatNAZIs 1 year ago
I'd have loved to have seen a passby of big horn and the southern continent.
Jammsbro1 1 year ago
This is one of my favorite books (trilogies). Great seeing it visualised - thanks!
SierraBravoOneNiner 1 year ago
This looks like it took TONS of work. Bravo to Mr. Bruneton!
Kodos1 1 year ago
love it
johnrfc1972 1 year ago
for those who would like to see the twin towers the segment is around 1:09
evilwarcow 1 year ago
twin towers still up
electronicmedium 1 year ago
cool beans. I'm looking forward to reading the book! is it really good for what?
anetchi 1 year ago
the book is excellent. i just finished it in less than a day. im really surprised this hasn't been made into a movie yet.
youngdaddytc26 1 year ago
Fantastic! This animation does justice to Mr Clarke's book, and I think that is saying a lot..
The twin towers on "Manhattan" Island are a bit eerie......
crocfme 2 years ago
Fantastic! Wonderfully done my good friend! Congratulations, this is a really captivating project you did!
FractalBolt 2 years ago
Just thinking about living in such a world sends shivers down my spine!
KrautGoesWild 2 years ago
What music is this?
eamonnca1 2 years ago
It's an arrangement of Allegri's "Miserere" by Henry Jackman.
GhostCharacter 2 years ago
Beautiful. Thanks for posting! Boggles the mind.
eamonnca1 2 years ago
imagine the selfsufficiency of these people. they dont have a planet to suck its resources dry. They should Create the resources they wish to destroy. I think these people really know the value of life and the value of existance. Clarke did too! Salute to Clarke ! Salute to Clarke! Salute to Clarke!
rohitaudipudi 2 years ago
They could get resources from lifeless planets and asteroids.
avmf8 2 years ago
tears in my eyes!!! Miss u Sir Arthur C Clarke
rohitaudipudi 2 years ago
Where can I download this music?
chrono643 2 years ago
i think its funny that you people are calling this guy an idiot. when you are making yourselves look dumb. there was more than one rama book. the others had citys and hills in them. just goes to show you should think before calling somebody else an idiot.
Durandalx50 2 years ago 2
I know some people are dumb. Also I have read the books as well all of them. But even if the books never said rolling hills who cares? I mean it's still an awesome model no matter what.
Besides the RAMA in the book people were speaking off was a bit boring. I also played the game made by the writer of the books. It was a bit bland looking. But I think the one in the first few books was a sort of one that was not totally finished inside.
avmf8 2 years ago
Right on!
rohitaudipudi 2 years ago
The cities are probably rather inefficient, but this is what some people will want.
JasonDamisch 2 years ago
It's not a very accurate rama, but very very nice job. It's majestic.
sulljoh1 2 years ago
sulljoh1, "majestic" sums it up. so what if it isn't "accurate" or deviates from the "facts" (it's fiction, for crissake). It's one hell of an achievement. Besides, does anyone believe that Hollywood wouldn't alter the "facts" if they filmed Rama?
jrnemo47 2 years ago
@jrnemo47
Of course they would. But they wouldn't actually make the chemical processing plant dubbed New York into a real Manhattan. It is supposed to be a mysterious alien world after all.
sulljoh1 2 years ago
Comment removed
jrnemo47 2 years ago
This is definitly an intresting video. But: You've got the entire video wrong from the start. The landscape had fields, but only on the south side of the river. Everything in Rama had a metalic dull gray look. There where no hills, there where 3 straight valeys where the light was emitted from. In the south side there where 6 small mountains around a big mountain pointing towards the north hemisphere. It Is an intresting conceptual video though, but as far fetched from Rama as ever possible.
vstman 2 years ago
Did you even read the book? There is so much wrong with this video, ranging from way more than 3 stairways, to windows on new York buildings, to rivers, trees, and hills all over Rama. Next time you should actually get your facts straight before spending time and effort on something that will make you look like a total idiot if done wrong.
bballbrett1 2 years ago
I didn't think there were supposed to be cities and fields inside Rama. I thought there was one complex in the middle of the cylinder and some weird primeval ooze.
inamonianim 2 years ago
if there was enough air pressure, then it wouldn't matter how much centripetal force there was. I would imagine the engineers on a place like this would give it a spin to generate a fore equal to 1G. so there is probably an easy calculation to figure out how much air they would need.
ocottsatman 2 years ago
Amazing
RepublicanTorture 2 years ago
Yep, but it works the same way as Niven's Ringworld. The rotation provides artificial gravity. At least for Ringworld the pressure gradient is very much the same as for our earth. I calculated it.
The main difference would be that the gradient in the RAMA cylinder varies more and that Coriolis effects are more prevalent as the velocity gradient between the air layers is higher.
The main
albedoshader 2 years ago
I know how miscellaneous my troubles are everytime i watch this video. Can somebody send me a copy of the music?
lowerlowerhk 2 years ago
Where is the landscape from? As far as I remember RAMA never were compleatly occupied by human infrastructure. Or am I wrong? I while since I read the books.
Serpentbane666 2 years ago
Read the "Making of" which you can download at the link in the info. Bruneton explains in detail what he did for the simulation and why he did it.
albedoshader 2 years ago
there is a human colony latter in the series, but you're right in saying that the islands were never human-ish
stubert311 2 years ago
I read the making of, and this apares to be a makers view of a Rama, and not a remake of how Rama in the book's was. Would have been cool though, if he made rama with the three different settlements as described in the book. But then again, the settlements were caped off from each other if I remember right? And so the entire lenght of the ship would not be viewable at the same time.
Anyways, great work...
Serpentbane666 2 years ago
i think each speces had an enclosed dome or something (it's not really specified) but i think the length of the ship is still open
stubert311 2 years ago
Each species had their own habitat, the Humans had a domed shaped habitat a few kilometers in circumference, the Avians had a vertical cylinder shaped habitat that and the octospiders had a colony that was a dome made out of plants and such. There was a giant barrier that reached all the way up to the point to where the crew from the Pinta couldn't see southern hemicylnder wall and it separated the Human habitat from the Avian one.
Vandriel 2 years ago
isn't it the similar thing as halo game shows in first game of the series, inspired i guess.
sonicedge1 2 years ago
Well, Halo is a ring while RAMA is a enclosed tube, but yeah, the consept is pretty much the same.
Serpentbane666 2 years ago
Not exactly. Rama is a closed Cylinder, Ringworld or the Ring in Halo are like Cylinders with open caps. Rama's atmosphere reaches up to the main axis of the cylinder, Ringworld's atmosphere is quite different from that.
albedoshader 2 years ago
Oh, they did...shhhhhh
ProgRok 2 years ago
Shut up gentlemen!
ProgRok 2 years ago
beautiful! have you thought of doing the smoke ring of integral trees another niven world?
jbouseley 2 years ago
very well done. excellent work
Robfoxman 2 years ago
To bad this person could not do the larry niven ringworld. The one that goes around a sun that is massive I think this person could pull it off.
avmf8 2 years ago 5
I'm working on the Ringworld. At the moment I'm pretty busy with simulating and calculating the appearance of Ringworld's concave atmosphere which has some very weird properties. I'm very much interested if Niven's description of the Ringworld appearing as baby blue ring is correct or not :)
I'm also interested in Rendering the double planet of "Rocheworld" and the Neutron star-spaceship constellation described in "Dragon's Egg". Ah, I forgot the Gas torus world of Niven's "Integral Trees".
albedoshader 2 years ago
@avmf8
just too big to show it. Rama is 50km long. The Ringworld has oceans where there are islands which are maps of whole planets... IN REAL SIZE!!! The diameter of the Ringworld is about the same as the diameter of the sun!!!!
rogerpenna 1 year ago
@rogerpenna Wrong, actually. the diameter of the Ringworld is the same as the diameter of earth's orbit.
JeweledBeast 1 year ago
@JeweledBeast
I know that. I meant the width. 1 million km. About the same as the sun. You can check the book. (im not a native english speaker and I had forgotten the word width)
rogerpenna 1 year ago
Cool stuff, great CGI work and soundtrack!! I'd love to shoot some day a Clarke-inspired shortfilm... ;) Perhaps... Song of distant Earth... ;)
alQurtubiyya 2 years ago
Response to all three comments:
*yawn*
Abengoshis 2 years ago
For sure? Were you there? Provide evidence.
Abengoshis 2 years ago
I find it sad that people like you exist.
Abengoshis 2 years ago
"collecting disability"
What is that supposed to mean?
"worthless slobbering autistic retard. "
Actually autistic people are generally more intelligent than "normal" people.
So if I was autistic I would probably be laughing at you.
You offend people because of things that they cannot control. Very mature of you. *More sarcasm*
Abengoshis 2 years ago
Yeah I did didn't I. *Note intense sarcasm*
Why am I wasting my time with this idiot...
Abengoshis 2 years ago
*sigh*
Yawn...
Abengoshis 2 years ago
I'm hoping that anyone can see how predjudiced against everyone you are, so I won't reply anymore.
Calling me gay or a paedo doesn't insult me because I know I'm not gay or a paedo.
I don't think I have to say anything more, you're an idiot and anyone can see that from what you have written about a science fiction book.
Abengoshis 2 years ago
Actually, Arthur C. Clark wasn't a paedophile, I just looked him up on google, he only had charges against him, he probably wasn't a paedophile.
Also, his book wasn't about molesting children.
I have no idea what you are on about.
Abengoshis 2 years ago
Just in case some deluded retards (like gregjocka22) think that I am a paedophile I am deleting my comments.
I know that many people are as stupid as gregjocka22, and as predjudiced towards gays and autistics/other mental disability, and this is why I am deleting my harmless, politically correct comments.
Abengoshis 2 years ago
I admitted it?
Quote where then you arsehole.
Abengoshis 2 years ago
Lol, so you're against autism too.
You are sick, absolutely deluded and sick.
Abengoshis 2 years ago
Lol, catholic priest, I'M ATHEIST.
If you were gay, would you rape?
If you were straight would you rape?
the same goes for paedophiles, but their incentive is greater because it is easier for them to kidnap children.
I agree that it is sick, but we should respect other people#s sexualities.
Abengoshis 2 years ago
"I AGREE THQAT IT IS SICK"
THERE WE GO YOU RETARD, Gregjocka, I SAID IT WAS SICK.
NOW TELL ME HOW THAT MAKES ME A PAEDOPHILE?
Abengoshis 2 years ago
Just because that guy was a paedophile doesn't mean his book sucked.
There is no link there.
Abengoshis 2 years ago
I think you are the lunatic here.
If you can't understand how some people don't have the same opinions and aren't born with exactly the same genetics as you then you are an arsehole.
Why do you make fun of: Asexuals, gays, paedophiles.
Are you scared of them or something.
Abengoshis 2 years ago
Comment removed
Abengoshis 2 years ago
Comment removed
Abengoshis 2 years ago
Comment removed
Abengoshis 2 years ago
What's wrong with you?
I am not a paedophile, but I am going to defend it here.
If you are a paedophile you have a sexual attraction to infants, if you are homosexual you have a sexual attraction to the same gender, if you are heterorsexual you have a sexual attraction to the opposite gender. Who's to say that paedophiles aren't born paedophiles like gay and straight people are born the way they are?
There's nothing wrong with being a paedophile, commiting the act is what is wrong.
Abengoshis 2 years ago
Very impressive, though not very true to the book(s)
GaryCancer 2 years ago
Who the fuck said I'm obsessed, I simply said you're an infant, and I don't even know who Arthur C. Clarke is, I simply enjoy space stuff. So go blow a chode you ignorant troll.
doomroe3 2 years ago
why don't you quit acting like an infant and hit puberty already.
doomroe3 2 years ago
you do know that theres nothing you can say to gregjocka22 to actually make him shut up right? just ignore people like that. we all know that the book was great and it would make a great movie. thats all that matters.
Halcyon670 2 years ago
Aw come on, fess up. Youre not really an ass bandit are you? I bet you would love to be the one in bangkok thrusting your steriod pumped wiener into some fresh thai schoolgirls pussy and then collecting her juices to bath in later on.... Now thats creepy!!..... lmao!!
luckyphilster 2 years ago
Ahhh, i think i get it now... Your really a closet sci-fi fan who fantasises about being raped by A.C.Clarke for days on end like the filthy cum bag that you are. Dont worry tho, I doubt that he would of had a pecker big enough to even touch the sides of your black hole of a sphincter. Not surprised tho as you seem to know alot about skank hotels and underage whores......
luckyphilster 2 years ago
BAHAHA!! I'm startin to think your a funny fucker (even for a raging donut puncher). But you either cant read or youve had so much cum squirted in your eyes that youve gone blind coz if you see what i wrote then thinking ol' A.C.Clarke as a "sicko perv" doesnt mean i support him. Altho i cant blame you for bieng a yank from yankyville, keep it real. ROFL!!!!
luckyphilster 2 years ago
wow! what a bitch you are!! were you the kid in thailand? a good book is a good book, so what if thew author is a sicko perv...
luckyphilster 2 years ago
fuckin sweeeet!! when n where can i see the goddamn movie!!!
one of the best books ever written...., period!
luckyphilster 2 years ago
he he! funny!
luckyphilster 2 years ago
Amazing "claps hands"
Grifter000020 2 years ago
If that blows your mind then go to the original source on his site which is in HD. Takes a while to download at 88mb, but worth the effort.
Awesome.
He also has a pdf file of 1.5mb that explains exactly how he did it. Genious. Took a few years as well.
schruh 2 years ago
Quite remarkable. Perfect mix future and past. Human creativity seems to have no bounds.
schruh 2 years ago
grate
f1KING 2 years ago
WOW! That blew my mind!!! You've got talent!! I'd never been fully able to visualize RAMA before. Thanks!
jeromeyward 2 years ago
Simply beatifull!
Gyzyn 2 years ago
Bang! Sorry that was my mind exploding, but lovely graphics.
perfectimage100 2 years ago
Downloaded a HD version from the source site,
it has end credits
Music: Allegri - Miserere by "Henry Jackman"
PangaeaTube 2 years ago
It may be known, that Clarke knew more then he`s giving us the credit for.
Im having great trouble trying to find out what music is used here.
Its not William Orbit by any chance?
PangaeaTube 2 years ago
Brilliant visualisation, absolutely stunning! We can build these huge habitats using materials from near-earth asteroids, using them up so they can't collide with us and getting lots of space-based real estate into the bargain. Check out Gerard O'Neill's 'High Frontier' we can do this!
alien8ted 2 years ago
Great!
I have just completed the book. AMAZING!
Hopefully it will one day be a motion picture.
As great as 2001? I doubt it but it would be aw inspiring nevertheless.
arbide2 2 years ago
Bravo. You'd make a great landscape architect!
BeachofDreams 2 years ago
well the point is, imagine a world totally different with our earth. Imagine a earth is like a water glass which we live on the outer surface, Rama is exactly the reversed idea of the earth. Living inside the glass.
AlienCarLicker 2 years ago
Rama is scientifically possible FUTURE space habitat using rotation as artificial gravity but i wonder about space debrie making a leak letting out the gas.Everyone asleep then suddenly they die water start to evaporate sky goes away and all living organisms expand to explotion
Scoinsoffaterocks 2 years ago
True, but if we were advanced enough to build this technology, then we would probably have sensors all over the ship to warn us of incoming debris long before it could hit and we would have a way to destroy the debris...it would be amazing if we actually did this though....quite awesome.
rab2591 2 years ago
In our life time(end of our life) my son could sell rama real estate in a ring cylinder or sphere
Scoinsoffaterocks 2 years ago
for such a big habitat you need years to lose all the air.
the reparation can be made in few hours
Leto2ndo 2 years ago 2
You have beautifully synthesized Gerard O'Neill's Model III cylindrical habitat design (which houses 10 million people) with the prescient fiction work of AC Clarke. It works for me, although 8/01 Manhattan may not be SO necessary. Now all Obama has to do is visualize sunsats as large black monoliths which position at geo to face the sun. Voila! There is your industry and the reason to build the extraterrestrial city. A home for the Star Child and his town mates in the new industry. Merci Eric.
Palmstream 2 years ago
What is the music?
vdoo84 3 years ago
It is Miserere by Henry Jackman, from Allegri. It is written at the end of the video and in the comments :)
Delfwaren 3 years ago
Nice music, it also was in Civilization 4.
AceTrax2007 3 years ago
amazing and uber cool.
reminds me also of the human habitat GODARD from the book TITAN, by Ben Bova.
rogerpenna 3 years ago
wow, rama is just like i imagined, a "little bit" different, but yet perfect. great animation mate, keep up the fantastic work!
overdose85 3 years ago
this is going to be hard to swallow, its going to be hard to believe and yet its all true, there is one piece of the puzzle that every one is missing, I know about it because I screwed up a conspiracy happening at the Dept. of Immigration in San Francisco, A conspiracy involving the CIA and the NSA, a conspiracy which when they were finished they would erase 1000s of us citizens and seize there properties through INS, illegally, a conspiracy.
Google : ALIEN AGENDA 2009
FromDimmuLand 3 years ago
You have given me hope that the movie Rendezvous with Rama can be made! No thanks to director David Fincher who had dropped the Rama project and left a huge black void in the science fiction realm. I guess I'm stuck with Star Trek 53 1/2 and Vampire Lesbians from Gorebu in the near future. Thank you sir for a fine production. This fantastic Clarke novel is screaming out to be made. It would revive a otherwise dying dry sad market. God bless you Sir Arthur C. Clarke. I will miss him
catalinanewbold 3 years ago
AMAZING!
BirdZerk01 3 years ago
I had a dream of this once. This is truly one of the most majestic things I've ever seen. It shows the connection between technology and nature in perfect balance in such a way that it takes my breath away.
AtomicShroomx 3 years ago 3
This comment has received too many negative votes show
I look at this and I feel awe like anyone else, but I've learned this feeling well enough to question it.
This is not nature, this is man's favorite selectively bread harvests.
Man is nature, man has nature, man likes nature, but man cannot control nature in a way that would conserve it's true beauty.
makosanders 3 years ago
u didn't get the point of the shape of Rama or u haven't read the book....
AlienCarLicker 2 years ago
You're probably right. I havn't read the book.
What is the point? is it like a seed or... What?
makosanders 2 years ago
Damn...breathtaking.
BardCoennius 3 years ago
Very nice! I would have loved to see more alien looking buildings and why did you recreate New York so exacting to the Earth version? Including the World Trade Center buildings?
djdoyle 3 years ago
Supermovie and great ideea to script from Arthur C. Clark (most genius man), this is the future, we must to help for this!!!! The movie must to be done!
charlywh 3 years ago
Excellent work. I read this book when it first came out more than 20 years ago. Your vision matches what I've seen in my minds eye all these many years. It would be great yarn for the bigscreen
magick205 3 years ago
Wow I loved those books. good call my friend
1anthroponym 3 years ago
This was a great video. Would have been better with more alien cities, but still your vision of Rama is pretty epic. Cheers.
ZayanK 3 years ago 2
This sucks, I'm only half way through the book and this ruins it for me.
letthedaybegin 3 years ago
1 - No it doesn't ruin anything.
2 - Why would you watch Rama videos when readin the book?
You fail!
jelleoelle 3 years ago
Same music as in Face Off with John Travolta.
conradhw 3 years ago
what music ?
Just pure joy !!
FromDimmuLand 3 years ago 3
ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL!!
I wish I could make a trip to Rama and spend some time in it.
mosquito03 3 years ago 2
WONDERFUL!!!!!!
i VOTED.
M BROS
on99line 3 years ago
Awesome! However, it would have been perfect with less human landscape and more alien, like the old video game.
I give 5 stars and fav it anyway :D
Cradlis 3 years ago
wow!! nice!! this would help me have a firm visualization as i read the book.. coz im reading it now and i find it hard to mentally construct some of the elaborations about the interior of Rama...
julian399 3 years ago
I had just re-read the book - great job! Thanks for sharing your vision of the book!
jrdurr2 3 years ago
amazing, a wonderful dream
tomassino 3 years ago
Great video, Like a futuristic dream.
tuktuktok 3 years ago 2
i thought it was less than 40 kilometers across?
eliteobserver 3 years ago
the song makes it feel epic more so than just reading the books and using your imagination.awesome...
68mopar440 3 years ago
Hi adorion! The music is 'Miserere' by an up and coming soundtrack composer called Henry Jackman. It's based on 'Miserere' by Allegri. You can hear lots of his music on his website. Apparently he's three albums. Please would someone let me know where I could get hold of them.
I really love this video. Does anyone know where I can watch a good quality copy?
Iandrvarley 3 years ago 2
Could please anyone tell me sth. about the soundtrack of this animation? It is even as awesome as the video... Song name and / or composer would be great. Thanks a Lot!
adorion 3 years ago
Impressive! -This model really captures the enormity of the Rama vessel. I didn't feel like I was traveling in the book version, but I really enjoyed it. Thanks!
hypnotizedvegetable 3 years ago
Very interesting but not quite an Alien 'Rama'.
This is more like O'neills space colony cylinder concept (as his book HIGH FRONTIER), or like babylon 5 syle.
Mind you, you have made a good job of a cyrindical world. Must be weird to see land above you through the clouds.
thegreatchi 3 years ago
no, is more like Dandridge coles space colony, O'neills space colony cylinder is open type cylinder.
Leto2ndo 3 years ago
Very nice video , I love it so much .
nutier
nutier 3 years ago
Beautiful, but the landscape is to reminiscent of earth NY, music is amazing to.
Yggdrasill4 3 years ago
Looks like a DysonSphere lol
DysonSfeer 3 years ago
This was fine indeed. Arthur's book (RIP) was magnificent and offered concepts which have stuck with me today (basically, Rama is an inside-out earth)
DChatc 3 years ago