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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,396 Views)
IIGSY
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GlarnBoudin
Dec 15 2016, 04:16 PM
I have actually been tossing around an idea for something like what you guys are describing.

Essentially, the idea was a faunal interchange of the highest possible caliber; all manner of creatures from different projects abruptly appearing in each others' worlds and seeing how they'd adapt to their new conditions.

It obviously wouldn't get off the ground without permission from everyone, but let me have my dream of a saber tyrant fighting a retrorexine, dammit!
I'd love to see the zuchi bears react to the creatures of Diyu. But let's not get ahead of ourselves so fast.
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Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
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So here's another idea I had: another one of these dimension projects, but instead of being a massive/infinite area, it consists wholly of a titanic, completely enclosed, unbreakable glass aquarium or paludarium the size of a football field (perhaps something a bit larger, like the whole of Michigan Stadium) populated with appropriately small organisms. Entropy might be offset by some quirk of the dimension that constantly replenishes energy lost the system at a tiny background rate. It'd be interesting to see if things could maintain themselves in such a small area, as well as the maximum possible sizes of its inhabitant and the population dynamics in such a tiny area (the appearance of a single highly-toxic species could cause a localized extinction, genetic drift would likely be minimal, etc).

What do you guys think?
Edited by Sphenodon, Dec 17 2016, 07:03 PM.

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Some of my ideas (nothing real yet, but soon):
Refugium: A last chance for collapsing ecosystems and their inhabitants.
Pansauria: A terraforming project featuring the evolution of exactly one animal - the marine iguana.
Mars Renewed: An insight into the life of Mars thirty million years after its terraforming by humankind.
Microcosm: An exceedingly small environment.
Alcyon: A planet colonized by species remodeled into new niches by genetic engineering.
Oddballs: Aberrant representatives of various biological groups compete and coexist.

..and probably some other stuff at some point (perhaps a no K-T project). Stay tuned!
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Sphenodon
Dec 17 2016, 07:03 PM
So here's another idea I had: another one of these dimension projects, but instead of being a massive/infinite area, it consists wholly of a titanic, completely enclosed, unbreakable glass aquarium or paludarium the size of a football field (perhaps something a bit larger, like the whole of Michigan Stadium) populated with appropriately small organisms. Entropy might be offset by some quirk of the dimension that constantly replenishes energy lost the system at a tiny background rate. It'd be interesting to see if things could maintain themselves in such a small area, as well as the maximum possible sizes of its inhabitant and the population dynamics in such a tiny area (the appearance of a single highly-toxic species could cause a localized extinction, genetic drift would likely be minimal, etc).

What do you guys think?
I think the largest inhabitants that could have a stable population would be a toad.
Projects
Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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So I've been working on my dinosaur-australian-yukon concept and I've fleshed it out a bit more. I was recommended by Yiqi to put it in cafe cosmique considering it has very little spec in it. I have the premise, but I'm not sure what to do with said premise. I've been contemplating whether to make it just a story, a kind of interactive story, roleplay, or to do something completely different with it entirely. Any input would be appreciated.

Also, @Sphenodon and @Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt I don't see why an animal a good deal larger than a toad couldn't survive, if in smaller numbers. Fish living in ponds and lakes often reach rather impressive size even if their body of water isn't that large.
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Jolly Gemstar
Dec 19 2016, 07:05 PM
So I've been working on my dinosaur-australian-yukon concept and I've fleshed it out a bit more. I was recommended by Yiqi to put it in cafe cosmique considering it has very little spec in it. I have the premise, but I'm not sure what to do with said premise. I've been contemplating whether to make it just a story, a kind of interactive story, roleplay, or to do something completely different with it entirely. Any input would be appreciated.

Also, @Sphenodon and @Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt I don't see why an animal a good deal larger than a toad couldn't survive, if in smaller numbers. Fish living in ponds and lakes often reach rather impressive size even if their body of water isn't that large.
Hmm, your right. I suppose parasites could keep them down? What do you think would be the largest animal that can still have a stable population.
Projects
Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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I'd say it depends on its lifestyle. A filter feeder/herbivore could get pretty large, probably the size of a large bass, whereas an active carnivore would likely be considerably smaller. If it were a catfish like a channel cat and ate literally anything that drifts near it and hardly moves, it could be even larger than the herbivores. A northern pike would probably be the absolute largest a fish could get. At least in my opinion.
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I'm not entirely how sure things could get - I need to further study microcosms. First question, though, is: how big exactly is Michigan Stadium? There's lots of seating capacity measurements, but none for physical dimensions.
Edited by Sphenodon, Dec 19 2016, 07:58 PM.

We have a Discord server! If you would like to join, simply message myself, Flisch, or Icthyander.
Some of my ideas (nothing real yet, but soon):
Refugium: A last chance for collapsing ecosystems and their inhabitants.
Pansauria: A terraforming project featuring the evolution of exactly one animal - the marine iguana.
Mars Renewed: An insight into the life of Mars thirty million years after its terraforming by humankind.
Microcosm: An exceedingly small environment.
Alcyon: A planet colonized by species remodeled into new niches by genetic engineering.
Oddballs: Aberrant representatives of various biological groups compete and coexist.

..and probably some other stuff at some point (perhaps a no K-T project). Stay tuned!
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Sorry Sphenodon. Insect Illuminati brought up the size limit thing and I assumed this was free for debate. I apologize greatly good sir for intruding where I did not belong. Have a pic of a snail giving you a flower in apology.
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If you really want to go big, use the Rungrado 1st of May Stadium in North Korea as a scale; It's over 20.7 acres in area, and that is plenty of room for an ecosystem to develop.
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Sphenodon
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You're completely fine, I intended no aggression towards anybody; this was more towards IIGS, as I was hoping that this wouldn't spiral into an argument of sorts. My apologies if you (and IIGS for that matter, I don't want to pick on anybody) felt as if I was getting a bit aggressive.

As for fish sizes, bass- to pike-size sounds logical for the very largest types (though again, I am not sure - need to study microcosms more). Any other thoughts?

Also @Yiqi15 My goodness that's a huge stadium. Might work - not entirely sure yet, this is an embryonic idea as of yet.
Edited by Sphenodon, Dec 19 2016, 08:15 PM.

We have a Discord server! If you would like to join, simply message myself, Flisch, or Icthyander.
Some of my ideas (nothing real yet, but soon):
Refugium: A last chance for collapsing ecosystems and their inhabitants.
Pansauria: A terraforming project featuring the evolution of exactly one animal - the marine iguana.
Mars Renewed: An insight into the life of Mars thirty million years after its terraforming by humankind.
Microcosm: An exceedingly small environment.
Alcyon: A planet colonized by species remodeled into new niches by genetic engineering.
Oddballs: Aberrant representatives of various biological groups compete and coexist.

..and probably some other stuff at some point (perhaps a no K-T project). Stay tuned!
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Inspired by other such projects, here's my take on an infinite space project:

The Void

That's it. An infinity of nothing. At least in the very begining. From then on, stuff began to be teleported or copied to the Void, just like for the Library and Cornucopia. There are four catches:
-Gravity works differently on large scales: it's repulsive. Stars disappear in vast clouds of super hot gas and large planets get torn apart. The repulsion strength and distance happen to be so that by default gas with consistency of air balances out to about 1.1 atmospheres of pressure. Solids and liquids hold together better and create larger and smaller islands, continents, lakes and oceans floating around in the gas.
-The whole universe is mapped for teleportation into the Void and there is no spatial bias - that means most of the time nothing gets teleported and virtually never has anything from the Solar system gotten into the Void directly (see more below). The teleported matter can be anywhere from a cubic meter to starsystemloads of volume. Most often gas clouds and large stars get teleported and serve to fill the void with uncomprehensibly large volumes of hydrogen and helium. Significantly less often solid matter of comets, ateroids and planets gets teleported and that is one of the main sources of islands. On the rare occasion that a black hole gets teleported a devastating explosion of gas and matter occurs as it fills worldfuls of volume.
-Other infinite realms are also mapped for teleportation. They are the main source of life in the Void. The secondary are native abiogenesises, although they are mostly limited to microscopic lifeforms. This also means the occasional floating books and harvesters are not that rare.
-Time mapping seems to act strangely and non-linearly. Intensity of teleportations gradually declines as time goes on in the Void and at the same time things from different time periods from two parallel realms can get teleported to the same time in the Void. It is therefore impossible to tell if time runs any faster or slower in the Void.

Physics

-Light: Surprisingly, the Void isn't pitchblack, but a somewhat dim world. With no stars to shine the source of light is mysterious at first. What happened is that shortly after the Universe ignited, vast swaths of space were teleported all over the Void, filling it with light. Although very large, the amount of light is finite and will someday decline to background radiation, although it's not known when that'll happen. There are small fluctuations in intensity over time, space and direction - the large distances mostly even out the lgiht.
-Temperature: Pressure in the gas clouds maintains a relatively constant temperature of about 290 K or 19ᵒ C. Some regions are in various degrees hotter due to recent teleportation of stars and regions with less density are colder.
-Winds: There are massive hurricanic winds of up to thousands of kilometers per hour that always strive to even out pressure and temperature as result. They also are the main source of island movement. They appear at random intervals out of nowhere and are in general very unpredictable and chaotic in nature. More often than not there are no winds, though.
-Atmosphere: It's mostly hydrogen and therefore uninhabitable, though there is at least one huge, stellar system sized cloud of Earth-like atmosphere in one region of the Void.

Regions

-The primal Void and the Fill: No matter how much stuff is teleported to the Void, it is still infinite; the infinite part of it that is still a perfect vacuum is called the primal Void. The finite part of it that has any kind of matter is called the Fill, is located at only one point in the primal Void and has roughly the shape of a ellipsoid. It is intergalactical distances across. All other regions are located in the Fill.
Gasses in the Fill constantly expand outwards, trying in vain to fill the primal Void, though gravity does its fair share of counteracting and maintains a somewhat constant density, at least in the central regions of the Fill.
-The Habitable Bubble is a stellar system sized gas cloud that contains breathable atmosphere and some islands. Due to its gasses being heavier they generally do not dilute out in the rest of the Fill.
-The Asteroid Path is a trail of asteroids that crisscrosses THB and its surroundings. The individual asteroids are anywhere from a meter to 3500 km in radius and unevenly spaced out. The exact configuration is constantly reshaped by strong winds, though collisions and the peculiar nature of gravity prevent them from forming bigger continents.
Bigger asteroids can also have irregular shape due to gravity being weaker across larger distances. Infact, the larger the body, the more irregular its shape. Largest islands eventually break up and mountains of smaller ones slowly raise higher and higher.
When a smaller asteroid has water, its hydrosphere is always spherical around its center of gravity. Larger asteroids tend to have strange and odd shapes for their hydrospheres, resulting in various discontinuous convex lakes and ponds.
Collisions between asteroids are not as forceful and as long as a creature is not directly between the coliding bodies, it's likely to survive.
-The Marvellous Maze is a bizare collection of land bridges connecting each other at the edge of THB that stretches for millions of kilometers. They are anywhere from 20m up to 1000km in length and from 1m to 100km in diameter. Their cross-section is mostly circular. Its combined mass often attracts bodies of water. It's unknown how it formed and it's constantly being destroyed due to collisions with other islands.
-The Irrigator is a collection of vast oceans in the center of THB. Due to the nature of liquids, the local nature of gravity and the constant winds, their shape, count and topology are constantly on the change, but always remain about in the center. Every now and then a lake seperates and drifts over in some direction never to return again, though rain from constant condensation makes up for that loss. The surface of the Irrigator is always covered in huge waves caused by the winds and constant collisions.

Although there is a fair share of specevo here, I'm more interested in the physics and geography aspects of this realm.
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You've also gotta take metabolism into account, Sphenodon. It's entirely possible for very large creatures to only need a small amount of food in order to survive.
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Sometimes, large herbivorous creatures needed larger stomachs and other body parts for the small food amounts they usually eat.
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I think I've burned a few too many bridges to start this on my own, but anyone who wants the concept can take it up. I'll probably never have the creativity to start a completely original concept, but I bet someone would enjoy doing this one. I've been playing School of Dragons (yeah, I know it's a little kid-ish :") ), and it's given me the idea for a more plausible remake of HtTYD. A few folks on deviantART, including the very talented Hellraptor, have had a similar idea, but not quite on this scale. Most of the dragons still have six limbs, making them paraphyletic, and the Vikings remain the same. I imagine all the dragons, including Toothless, as having two legs and two wings. In addition, some dragons, including the Zippleback, Snaptrapper, and Fireworm, might need to be cut out entirely. If not, maybe conjoined or parasitic (symbiotic?) multiples could just be more common in some species. You could, perhaps, replace Barf and Belch with a Scauldron and a Skrill, respectively. Also, I think the Vikings should be a bit more realistic as well, especially in terms of culture and dress, within some poetic license. For instance, they should celebrate Yule, not Snoggletog, and their helmets should lose the horns.
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and their helmets should lose the horns.
Actually I read on TV Tropes that it makes perfect sense (from a practical perspective for the vikings to have horned helmets. The horns would make it harder for the dragon to pick them up by the head or bite them off.
Current/Completed Projects
- After the Holocene: Your run-of-the-mill future evolution project.
- A History of the Odessa Rhinoceros: What happens when you ship 28 southern white rhinoceri to Texas and try and farm them? Quite a lot, actually.

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- XenoSphere: The greatest zoo in the galaxy.
- The Curious Case of the Woolly Giraffe: A case study of an eocene relic.
- Untittled Asylum Studios-Based Project: The truth behind all the CGI schlock
- Riggslandia V.II: A World 150 million years in the making

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