NASA moil out a stack of concept graphics in the 1970s while the delegacy was research ways to build dependency in space . NASA concept artist created trippy piece like the Cynlidrical Colony above , and Torodial and Bernal Sphere colonies as well . We ’d care to imagine that you could low - grav the whole thing , and just leap from one side of the colony to the other . Of course , it ’s not quite clear what would happen if you ran into one of those giant windowpane sections . Hopefully they ’re made out of some synthetical diamond material to keep accidents from befall .
Don Davis , who painted this piece , has work at NASA for years , and he ’s responsible for for concept art on everything pasture from these space colony , to the Voyager computer programme . He ’s worked at the Ames Research Center , which is the mecca for speculative skill fiction / faction at NASA , located in California . When he was n’t working on art like this , he was also join forces with Carl Sagan , and contributed to Cosmos , for which he won an Emmy . you may check over out more of Don ’s retro - futurist painting at hiswebsite , where he also has an impressive number of Burning Man trip-up reports as well .
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