The graphic tools in iBooks Author are shapes you can use with text boxes to identify them. The shapes are the typical prims such as circles and squares and you can stretch / distort them to change the appearance somewhat.
Likely as no surprise, that has been less than satisfactory. There is one graphic of the Rock City so far and that's the overhead view of the Dallas / Fort Worth complex surrounded by satellite Rock Cities. That one wasn't exactly "Mona Lisa" so it's generally presentable.
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More difficult to portray is the vertical view of the Rock City since we have allocated the lowest ten floors to infrastructure such as sewers, water supply, computer center, etc. The other ninety floors of the Rock City are allocated to residences, stores, and underground factories. That's fine but it doesn't make much of a graphic. I do think it needs some type of graphic representation since that may make the concept as a whole more approachable.
Note: as to where are the parks, keep in mind we demolished the DFW metroplex after we migrated everyone into the Rock Cities. We can make a park in the land freed by that which is so big it will make the San Diego Zoo look like a highway rest stop.
Judging by the reception the concept is generally approachable already but there's always room for improvement. I suspect the reception is because I obviously take it seriously plus there's no terrorized hyperbole about some impending disaster.
Another approach to the presentation is to do it with video because I can go completely gonzo with a whiteboard. A second camera is available to do that but recording it from a live session is impossible without some type of video multiplexer to permit switching between each camera without interrupting the session. That can be done but it's not free and that eliminates it right off the top.
The other choice is to composit multiple videos in Final Cut but it's not live and what a drag. It may be ok and, wtf, I've already got a suit. It's not exactly professorial but, wtf, neither am I.
Another option is to crank out something on the iPad since I have rarely needed a drawing program on the desktop machines. I do graphics and that's only art if you get weepy over TV commercials.
There are drawing programs for the iPad but they don't cost much. It's still such a hassle to use the damn thing, tho. I used a Wacom drawing tablet at one time and that was reasonably competent without requiring the entire computer to become a tablet. They can be extremely expensive however.
There's a bit of a slowdown taking place for a coherency review and the biggest drive pushing it forward is the Sociology because you have probably deduced not much of the government will be necessary and the Rock City environment is just about full-blown Socialist.
(Ed: what difference will that make?)
Not much to our lives, it just gets a load of glorified car salesmen out of the way. We will be able to get a whole lot more done for ourselves and for the city. Considering the possibility of a world populated by Greek city states, immensely big ones, is intriguing to me. The world is going to grow and we can do as we like but it will happen anyway.
When you have two mushballs getting all sweaty and squeezy together, sooner or later one of them will likely say, "Oh, my darling li'l sugar muffin, I just wish this moment could go on forever."
The fact of the matter is nothin' goes on forever and the Rock Cities are in celebration of that fact rather than rejection of it. If we run out of space, fuck it, build another Rock City and run a HyperLoop to connect it. Welcome to the planet, new people.
(Ed: are these really modular cities?)
Yep.
Fear not as to how this goes as we're just scratching the surface of how demented I want to get. It can't be some impossible fantasy since I have to believe it could actually work or I see no point in writing about it. More to come.
Likely as no surprise, that has been less than satisfactory. There is one graphic of the Rock City so far and that's the overhead view of the Dallas / Fort Worth complex surrounded by satellite Rock Cities. That one wasn't exactly "Mona Lisa" so it's generally presentable.
Screen selection from iBooks Author:
More difficult to portray is the vertical view of the Rock City since we have allocated the lowest ten floors to infrastructure such as sewers, water supply, computer center, etc. The other ninety floors of the Rock City are allocated to residences, stores, and underground factories. That's fine but it doesn't make much of a graphic. I do think it needs some type of graphic representation since that may make the concept as a whole more approachable.
Note: as to where are the parks, keep in mind we demolished the DFW metroplex after we migrated everyone into the Rock Cities. We can make a park in the land freed by that which is so big it will make the San Diego Zoo look like a highway rest stop.
Judging by the reception the concept is generally approachable already but there's always room for improvement. I suspect the reception is because I obviously take it seriously plus there's no terrorized hyperbole about some impending disaster.
Another approach to the presentation is to do it with video because I can go completely gonzo with a whiteboard. A second camera is available to do that but recording it from a live session is impossible without some type of video multiplexer to permit switching between each camera without interrupting the session. That can be done but it's not free and that eliminates it right off the top.
The other choice is to composit multiple videos in Final Cut but it's not live and what a drag. It may be ok and, wtf, I've already got a suit. It's not exactly professorial but, wtf, neither am I.
Another option is to crank out something on the iPad since I have rarely needed a drawing program on the desktop machines. I do graphics and that's only art if you get weepy over TV commercials.
There are drawing programs for the iPad but they don't cost much. It's still such a hassle to use the damn thing, tho. I used a Wacom drawing tablet at one time and that was reasonably competent without requiring the entire computer to become a tablet. They can be extremely expensive however.
There's a bit of a slowdown taking place for a coherency review and the biggest drive pushing it forward is the Sociology because you have probably deduced not much of the government will be necessary and the Rock City environment is just about full-blown Socialist.
(Ed: what difference will that make?)
Not much to our lives, it just gets a load of glorified car salesmen out of the way. We will be able to get a whole lot more done for ourselves and for the city. Considering the possibility of a world populated by Greek city states, immensely big ones, is intriguing to me. The world is going to grow and we can do as we like but it will happen anyway.
When you have two mushballs getting all sweaty and squeezy together, sooner or later one of them will likely say, "Oh, my darling li'l sugar muffin, I just wish this moment could go on forever."
The fact of the matter is nothin' goes on forever and the Rock Cities are in celebration of that fact rather than rejection of it. If we run out of space, fuck it, build another Rock City and run a HyperLoop to connect it. Welcome to the planet, new people.
(Ed: are these really modular cities?)
Yep.
Fear not as to how this goes as we're just scratching the surface of how demented I want to get. It can't be some impossible fantasy since I have to believe it could actually work or I see no point in writing about it. More to come.
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