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The Shen Kuo Magnetic Containment Laboratory This illustration is the only one in the book that uses a 3D model. Because I needed to postion the point of view while establishing a scale of credibility, there was no other way to create a complex large enough. Once built, I could colour it and add smoke and a tiny maintenance person at the base of tower 1. I could put the camera anywhere while maintaining consistency of location. I was also able to grab it and match it with the same perspective landscape geometry on the ground below Kele's aircraft. I'd like to do a camera walkthru inside the complex and enter the magnetic containment dome - to match it up with the interior image two pages later. The SKM Lab is a critical turning point for the story. It combines the elements of coincidence and chance that initiates the fish-out-of-water experience of Kele. That's why the creation of the lab could not be brushed off lightly.

looking at the stacks view from the main gate the legacy towers the dome housing the magnetic containment a view from street level

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