Maxforums - Maxforums Tournament 7 - Round 2 - Davious

Maxforums Tournament 7 - Round 2 - Davious

Davious

so im thinking nanomachine repairing the blood cells in a vein ...

early concept (with stock photo)

I'll try and actually DO something on this one!

" Difficult, yes. Impossible , no..."

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8/1/2010 2:34:15 AM (last edit: 8/1/2010 2:34:15 AM)

Sylverstalker

Sounds awesome :) I'm looking forward to seeing this one.

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8/1/2010 2:43:52 AM (last edit: 8/1/2010 2:43:52 AM)

mrgrotey

Great idea!

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8/1/2010 10:05:27 AM (last edit: 8/1/2010 10:05:27 AM)

mike_renouf

Excellent :) looking forward to seeing some roughs soon!

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8/1/2010 10:34:06 AM (last edit: 8/1/2010 10:34:06 AM)

Davious

so here are my thoughts about this..

found a nice pic with a virus in the bloodstream I would like to reproduce..
http://www.faqs.org/photo-dict/phrase/671/virus.html

Also the machines themselves are VERY small, and attack and dissect the virus cells.

So they need to be simple machines, only in the far far future will they be complex, I'm thinking they use slicing and cutting edges. They also need some form of sensor/input to identify the virus. Either visual or tactile. And they need to be able to move themselves around. Some form of power, probably from either chemical reactions (simple reactor) or an external source such as photo cell.
These things live in your bloodstream, so solar is only good when they float to near the surface, most of the time its black. So I'll go with an internal chemical engine.

Simple design is good, some of the nano machines I've researched use a steam piston, with a single molecule of water to power the piston!
Too many hoses and pipes wouldn't work at this scale, however, it still needs to look cool :)

SIMPLE
INPUTS
ENGINE
MOTIVE POWER

I'll start on a contact sheet for the machine designs and post that up too get your feedback

EDIT: here are some ideas for the bot

" Difficult, yes. Impossible , no..."

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8/1/2010 3:13:04 PM (last edit: 8/1/2010 4:07:07 PM)

mike_renouf

Great stuff. I'd love to get an idea of how to reproduce materials that you see in that sort of image too. They seem to glow somehow.

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8/1/2010 3:19:06 PM (last edit: 8/1/2010 3:19:06 PM)

Poopsmith

I did this tutorial a long time ago, it starts out in max, should help you out a lot.
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/medical_zoom_01/

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8/1/2010 6:47:03 PM (last edit: 8/1/2010 6:47:03 PM)

mike_renouf

Personally I'm a fan of the cuttlefish-like fin surrounding the body section of D. Seems like a good propulsion system. Maybe the twin scalpels on C would go well with it too?

Just my personal opinions.

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8/1/2010 6:53:06 PM (last edit: 8/1/2010 6:53:06 PM)

Davious

thanks for the tutorial link poop, and the feedback Mike, I like the idea of a propulsion system based on an aquatic creature or even a plankton like creature. A rippling membrane, I like the skull like shape of C, and the twin scapels, if I have time I might do some more designs or have more than one type of bot.

" Difficult, yes. Impossible , no..."

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8/1/2010 8:52:42 PM (last edit: 8/1/2010 8:52:42 PM)

Joey Parker Jr.