July 29, 2006
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Maltese Falcon
A big thank you to SalmonCakeDaddy for pointing me towards this website.
Superyacht
sets sailJuly 14, 2006 4:49 PM PDTThe Maltese Falcon, a $100
million yacht that the designers claim is the largest and fastest
personal sailboat in the world, formally set sail in Italy on July 14.Built for venture capitalist Tom Perkins, the
87.5-meter yacht
sports three 57-meter tall masts and each mast has 6 yards from which
the sails hang. This design gives it a slight resemblance to a clipper
ship.The masts on the Maltese Falcon rotate to make the
ship more aerodynamic. No word on how many cup holders are
onboard.Credit: Insensys
Such a beautiful ship! It kind of reminds me of this hypothetical oil tanker with sails.
http://www.transitionrig.com/windships.htm
Comments (2)
wow…
Love that tanker…
Anyway, I’m not sure exactly what you intend to do with your modeling program (although somehow I imagine small craft design to be behind it) but here are a couple I’ve tried to use in the past.
http://www.swissquake.ch/chumbalum-soft/ Milkshape 3D is used by a lot of people who like to create custom character models for their video games (that’s how I’ve seen it used) but there’s no reason it’s limited to that.
http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Home.2.0.html This is pretty popular among 3d nerds as well.
http://www.anim8or.com/main/index.html Anim8or tends to lend itself well to producing 3d animations from models.
Also, this page has links to various other shareware programs
http://www.3dlinks.com/links.cfm?categoryid=1&subcategoryid=2
Everything I’ve listed tends to be the lower end of 3D graphics utilities, but considering you won’t have to spend hundreds of dollars on higher-end software, these ones are worth a look.
Smooth sailing,
Alex.