Modeling in Progress Fall 2007

CONCEPT

Star-Faring Habitat Daybreak of Discovery exists in a fictional future era many centuries from now that has no faster-than-light travel technology. As a sublight starship, Daybreak of Discovery takes decades to travel between star systems. At almost 1900 meters tall, it is much more massive than most of my starship designs with faster-than-light capability. Daybreak of Discovery is my most literal Baha'i-inspired vessel with its design inspired by Baha'i Houses of Worship. It is also the most obvious symbol of my Baha'i identity as a speculative spaceship designer. Daybreak of Discovery does not serves in any space fleet but rather is an independent space-traveling community. This giant starship is the closest thing I have to the generation ship concept found in science fiction literature. It combines my hopes for peaceful interstellar exploration with the probablity that such journeys will take place at sublight speeds for a long time to come.

DIGITAL RESOURCES

Modeling - Rhino 4 and TrueSpace 6.6
Spare Parts - TBD
Rendering - Flamingo 1.1
Textures -TBD
Backgrounds - Custom Photoshop 7 brushes and Photoshop plug-in Lunarcell
Running Lights - Universe Image Creator
Miscellaneous - CorelDRAW, Corel Photo-Paint and Adobe Photoshop

PRIMARY DESIGN INFLUENCE

1. The Baha'i House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago, USA)