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hombre_fatal 4 hours ago

I read it as a young teen, and I remember trying to imagine what it might look like to enter a cylinder that large.

I remember having fun doing it, which might not be something I could amuse myself with 20 years later since it's hard to hold on to that kind of childlike wonder unless you're on a hallucinogen.

shagie 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Some of my early renderings Renderman (high school), Povray (college), and Art ( https://www.abemegahed.com/software/ - at the very end) were trying to visualize the scale of Rama and Ringworld.

The scale of it was... well... astronomical.

jacquesm 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Some of the ringworld covers were quite good.

shagie an hour ago | parent [-]

One of the things that I recall from that (and written about elsewhere... though I don't recall where) is that the shadows of the shadow squares, when viewed from the surface all subtend the same angle on the Arc of Heaven.