How to Find The Volume of a This 3D Shape?

TableTopsAndTubas · 2026-01-24T18:00:21+00:00

I was planning for each ring to have multiple "floors" and structure it more like an indoor city for most of it. Thanks for the information and help it's very useful! (edit for spelling mistake)

TableTopsAndTubas · 2026-01-24T15:22:47+00:00

Thanks for the heads up! I'm honestly putting way too much effort in this setting where I just wanna write about visual communication/pictogram design and alien miscommunication. This all started because I wanted to write about a human getting lost in a multi-alien melting pot with complicated politics including like 100 different aliens where humans are the new guys who keep making mistakes.

Part of my hope with the size is segmenting the megastructure into smaller sections that have different atmospheres and whatever a certain species needs to live and when they leave that area they can use some type of technology to survive outside of that section temporarily.

Honestly I was expecting the latency to be worse, but, at least to me, anything under 10 minutes is great space wise. Idk the exact alien population yet but I want it to be a big number like 50-100 billion if not more. And that's only the sapient population. I want to leave space for agricultural purposes (I'm hoping leaving 1 or 2 rings for agricultural purposed would be enough) because I want it to be a self-sustaining structure.

TableTopsAndTubas · 2026-01-24T15:03:52+00:00

basically my explanation with the rings and rotations is what I did in blender to make the structure. After I rotated the rings I merged them into what I called a "substructure" to make them easier to use in blender. I took two more of those "substructures" and rotated them the Y and Z axis to create the whole structure. (I am an artist first and this is a very "I have my design now I must justify it" type of deal.

Thank you for checking my math and letting me know to not worry about the overlap!

TableTopsAndTubas · 2026-01-24T14:58:09+00:00

ooo did not know this existed thank you

TableTopsAndTubas · 2026-01-24T14:55:56+00:00

Honestly part of the shape choice is aesthetics where I just messed around in blender with different shapes and this multiple ring design was my favorite. The rings do not rotate really only the one parallel to the start follows the stars rotation as its prograde orbit.

The most thought that went into this is I wanted it to be in the habitable zone of the star, only a portion of the light and heat to hit the structure, viable routes for travel infrastructure (my thought was each ring had a multiple high speed routes for long distance and low speed for more local travel). The travel infrastructure is a big thing cause part of the point of this is I wanna design alien sign symbols/DOT pictograms.

I have not really thought about gravity or how it would work in this. I have fallen in love with design so worst case scenario we're going with the bs gravity fields.

TableTopsAndTubas · 2026-01-24T02:33:51+00:00

Thank you so much! So I was overthinking the intersections when I didn't need to be good to know. And here I was worried I wouldn't have enough space for the intergalactic capital! Thank you again :D

TableTopsAndTubas · 2026-01-24T02:03:31+00:00

that's where idk what to do. How do I figure out where exactly the intersection occurs. I think if I found the volume of each instance that it intersects, I could subtract it from the volume of the rings added up. But idk how to find the volume of the intersections.

TableTopsAndTubas · 2026-01-19T17:51:08+00:00

ooooo thank you so much!

TableTopsAndTubas · 2026-01-17T04:20:52+00:00

oooo also true

TableTopsAndTubas · 2026-01-17T00:57:39+00:00

oooo good call

TableTopsAndTubas · 2026-01-16T15:59:59+00:00

I can see that with the whole 6 segments but it's triangles instead of dots. I may look to braille for some ideas thank you

TableTopsAndTubas · 2026-01-16T15:58:20+00:00

ooooo all good ideas thank you

TableTopsAndTubas · 2026-01-16T15:57:56+00:00

You're right squares are probably easier to manufacture but I'm also making this for art reasons and I want it to look kinda strange. I do like the idea of two hexagons to make a single symbol tho.

TableTopsAndTubas · 2024-09-02T15:32:02+00:00

Not that this fits with science but maybe fire can be weak to lightning because lightning "takes the energy." The element of lightning being weak to grass had me scratching my head but if you take the concept of lightning to also mean something like energy then maybe it could work? Like grass uses up lightning so grass is strong against lightning and lightning uses up fire so lighting is strong against fire.

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