T. M. A. ?

[Mr_Lamppost]

I was playing silly buggers last night and came up with this 

It needs something to finish it off any suggestions? 

[dhavalmistry]

a shiny reflective surface representing windows.....but what would it be doing in the middle of the desert where there is nothing/no one around.....

[Cyber-Angel]

If this had several early humans in this I'd suggest renaming this "The Dawn of Man" after the sequence of the same name in 2001: A Space Odyssey as this looks like the monolith from that motion picture.

For those who don't know about 2001: A Space Odyssey T.M.A-1 stands for Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One AKA the Tycho Monolith which is the Monolith found on the Moon dated to be 3 Million years old and is the same one encountered by Moon-Watcher and his tribe at the beginning of the film, it is said to be perfect having the ratio of 1 to 4 to 9.     


Regards to you.

Cyber-Angel

[sonshine777]

Was it actually that big? Seems a little large in scale. Very cool idea though, hope you continue to develop it.

[Lucio]

Where are the apes?

[Will]

give it some white spots and make it a giant domino! 

[Cyber-Angel]

Was it actually that big? Seems a little large in scale. Very cool idea though, hope you continue to develop it.

If you read Arthur C.Clark's book of 2001 (I think its also mentioned in the film, though I don't remember) that T.M.A-2 that was found near the "Star-Gate located near Saturn (Hence the so called Star-Gate sequence) had the same Ratio as T.M.A.-1 which was the monolith found on the moon meaning they both had the ratio of 1 to 4 to 9.

T.M.A-2 was never as I recall mentioned in the film and the Star-Gate was moved into Jupiter Space rather than as in the book located near Saturn. I do recall which chapter or paragraph this information is mentioned in the book.

Regards to you.

Cyber-Angel       

[mr-miley]

I did one similar in TG 0.9. Never thought to revisit it. I used the TG to C4D plugin for C4D.

[overlordchuck]

Hahahaha, this is GREAT.  I definitely agree with Lucio, monkeys are what you need!  The dominoes idea is gold!

[sonshine777]

The dominoes theme is kind of "Space Odyssey meets Mel Brooks"

[DaveC]

monkeys and some bones!

   Or maybe something like a dinosaur or a large alien skeleton?

[Mr_Lamppost]

Thanks for the comments and suggestions. 

The domino idea sounds fun, there is probably some mileage in that     but it looks like the primitive humans are the way to go. I had more or less decided this myself but was hoping someone would have a cool idea that avoided my having to make them.   

I got the impression from the book and I read that before seeing the film, that the monolith was able to change its scale and appear any size as required.  My object is about the size of T.M.A.-1 as it appears on the moon in the film.  Although it is described as perfectly black in the book I gave it a slight secular sheen as seen in the film. 

I am a little surprised that it hasn't appeared in the TG2 universe before. Although that 0.9 appearance looks good.

[NWsenior07]

I like it. Clever idea indeed!