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sitnspin:
I wasn't speaking of Transformers, I've never seen the movie nor do I have any interest in doing so. Not my kind of movie. I was just speaking in general terms. There are justifications for wildly different aesthetics achieving similar ends. Enough so that they don't even need to be stated in the work itself unless that information is pertinent to the story being told.
ReindeerFlotilla:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 05 Nov 2014, 11:13 ---I wasn't speaking of Transformers, I've never seen the movie nor do I have any interest in doing so. Not my kind of movie. I was just speaking in general terms. There are justifications for wildly different aesthetics achieving similar ends. Enough so that they don't even need to be stated in the work itself unless that information is pertinent to the story being told.
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I was speaking of the Transformenrs when I brought the topic up however. Beyond that point, yes. There are rationally consistent reason for things that may not be obvious. For example, The burrowing tentacle horrors known a mimics in The Edge of Tomorrow look like they do because they are force evolved starfish. That's from the book the movie is based on, and isn't covered in the film at all.
But most aesthetic choice are made because "it will look cool." Hell, I'm developing a thing, and I've already run into that problem. The geometry a vaguely plausible Alcubierre warp is a sphere. And ship has to fit inside the flat space time inside that sphere. That flat space time is also a sphere. The most efficient ship design will fill that space time as completely as the warp allows, so the ship should be a sphere.
I don't want spherical spaceships. Form is no longer leading function. I'm forcing function to conform to form, because no one knows if an Alcubierre warp is actually possible. So I'm still trying to be consistent.
That said, My point really is that it's just not reasonable to expect Hollywood to start from function to get form in a real world manner. The Function of a Hollywood design is to entertain. It's form follows that. I don't judge Bay's Transformers on how hard it is to make a decent toy out of them, because that wasn't what they were made for.
They were made to sell cars. Their Alt modes happen to look exactly like the cars they were made to sell.
SubaruStephen:
--- Quote from: ReindeerFlotilla on 05 Nov 2014, 11:04 ---If the Cardassian solution to warp physics is worse than the federation solution, they would have moved their designs toward the Fed shape. If it's better, Federation design would trend towards the cardassian shape. If it is equal, everyone else's ships would look fed like or cardassian like.
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This also explains why every midsize sedan from every manufacturer in the 90's looks like a half used bar of soap.
Kugai:
That still doesn't explain the Borg Cube
I mean, come on, a ship the size of that traveling at Warp and it's basically an oversized Rubik's Cube??!!!!
LeeC:
Imagine if solving a rubrick's cube was the weakness of the borg cube. Like you solve it then the borg cube implodes.
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