Life-Size USS Enterprise - Cross-Section Tour

Cross-sectional view of the Enterprise's Primary Hull.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• uss
• enterprise
• star
• trek
• space
• ncc
• 1701
• vrml
• animation
• virtual
• port
• credit
• mississauga
• 3d
• game
• legacy
• bridge
• tos
• cross-section

[Wolfman051970]

To continue, I'm guess you made Aux. Control in your vision as a MINOR refit that the Enterprise had between the 3rd season and the Animated Series (2 turbolifts to the bridge in the animated season)

[brookestephen]

@Wolfman051970 sorry for the inconsistencies, but I started with the published deck plans, and THEN used scenes from TOS shows - but no other source!! I realize that aux control looks different from the shows, but it is different in the deck plans, my primary source. I wanted to see what the ship looked like from the outside with a functional inside... very differenct from all the "outside-only" models that are all over the place... you want to learn VRML? I can send you something...

[Wolfman051970]

What program did you get this from?

[brookestephen]

@Wolfman051970 created this myself from scratch using Visual Basic programs to generate the 3d points (x,y,z), colour descriptions, and "VRML" text files (Virtual Reality Modeling Language). The doors and turbolifts and bridge workstation panels are all automated with Javascript from inside VRML "Prototype" files that act like "software objects" so I can use them all over the model in a sort of cookie-cutter fashion.

[Fathergryndl]

Engineering's in the saucer?

[brookestephen]

@Fathergryndl yes that's true - one in the saucer and one in the secondary hull, just forward of where the nacelle pylons join the hull. Have you seen the architectural plans?

[Wolfman051970]

That would be great

[Wolfman051970]

Wish I could do something like this. I don't even know how. This was amazing but I noticed one thing that didn't look right. The Auxillary Control Room looks a bit like the bridge. Now, I admit the series started a few years before I was born, but since I have the remastered seasons, I know that Auxillary Control only has a 2 person station in front of the viewscreen and another station that looks like an engineering station behind a mesh screen.

[Fathergryndl]

Weird, I didn't realize that Impulse and warp had different control rooms

[brookestephen]

You're very kind.

Ya the cross-section was one of my favorites too. Although it was orthographic, I like this because it's a 3d cross-section - not something you see everyday.

Now I gotta figure out how to glue it back together... the captain's kinda pissed! I could get busted back to ensign...