O'Neill Cylinder Exterior - V1
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This is an artwork depicting the exterior of a type of large-scale space colony called an O'Neill Cylinder, made popular by American Physicist Gerard K. O'Neill in his book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space (1976). The interpretation in this view differs from O'Neill's original idea, in which the inner surface had transparent strips running its length, and mirrors outside those sections to bounce sunlight inside. Instead, here the surface is fully landscaped, with a light source provided by a central, axial light strip powered by nuclear fusion (or other future technology). The cylinders here measures 9.2km (5.6 miles) in diameter and 36km (20 miles) long. Rotation about the long axis. at a rate of 300 m/s at the surface, provides artificial 1g of artificial gravity by means of centripetal force. Two of them are bound together to stabilise their rotation.
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Title: O'Neill Cylinder Exterior - V1

Category: Hardware

Date: Apr 2023

Medium: Blender, Photoshop

Keywords: Adobe Photoshop artificial gravity Blender 3D centripetal force colony engineering future futuristic Gerard O'Neill landscape O'Neill Cylinder space colony space habitat