Post by brotherofthemoon on Aug 25, 2006 23:07:28 GMT -4
I was digging through my old books when I stumbled across my copy of Scott Sullivan's Virtual LM. I hadn't looked at it in about a year, so I blew the dust off and dug in.
I have to say, even though it's not perfect, the amount of detail really blows me away. There's closeups of all the control panels, step-by-step illustrations of the LM construction, isometric cutaways of the ascent stage from 10 different angles, just to name a few. There's 15 pages devoted to the landing gear mechanisms, 14 pages devoted to the LRV deployment system, and all the illustrations show tiny details like piping and wiring, support beams and frames, valves, and electronics assemblies.
I think if Mr. Sullivan ever does a second edition of the book, he might want to annotate the illustrations a bit better, and refine some of the rougher 3D models. I heard a while back that he was working on a Virtual Saturn V. What became of that?
I have to say, even though it's not perfect, the amount of detail really blows me away. There's closeups of all the control panels, step-by-step illustrations of the LM construction, isometric cutaways of the ascent stage from 10 different angles, just to name a few. There's 15 pages devoted to the landing gear mechanisms, 14 pages devoted to the LRV deployment system, and all the illustrations show tiny details like piping and wiring, support beams and frames, valves, and electronics assemblies.
I think if Mr. Sullivan ever does a second edition of the book, he might want to annotate the illustrations a bit better, and refine some of the rougher 3D models. I heard a while back that he was working on a Virtual Saturn V. What became of that?