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A: Every window actually has a room behind it.

This picture shows my Conway station model with most of the outer walls removed. You can see that there is an actual room behind every window, with its own lighting and even little people in it. Even the dark windows have rooms behind them, they are just unlit.

I realise this is slightly insane. People who know more about CGI modelling than I do will probably look this and be aghast. They will say there are better (or at least simpler) ways of creating the impression of interiors than this. Still you gotta admit, it's kind of impressive.

If you look closely you will see that there are no rooms where there are no windows; in other words I only modelled interior spaces that are visible from the outside. This means this is not a proper cutaway (for which I would have built a complete interior), it is more a warts-and-all exposé of one of my models.

I should explain that I didn't build all of these rooms by hand; I'm not that mad. I use the POV-Ray raytracer to create my pictures, and POV-Ray models are built using a scripting language which supports programming constructs like variables, expressions, conditions and loops. This allowed me to write algorithms for placing the windows and building the rooms, which means I can create a model with a thousand rooms in little more time than it takes to build one with only ten (although the number of rooms, or more accurately the number of windows, does have quite an impact on render time).

At present the rooms have people but no furniture, something I hope to correct in future. You may also notice that the room lighting is tinted to vary the colour, something I believe they did on TOS to make it look like they had more room sets than they actually did.

I have also rendered this picture with the outer walls in place [link] .

Rendered with POV-Ray 3.7 on Thursday 30th May 2013. Thanks go to *Reactor-Axe-Man for asking the original question and giving me the excuse to do this.

Description
A: Every window actually has a room behind it.

This picture shows my Conway station model with most of the outer walls removed. You can see that there is an actual room behind every window, with its own lighting and even little people in it. Even the dark windows have rooms behind them, they are just unlit.

I realise this is slightly insane. People who know more about CGI modelling than I do will probably look this and be aghast. They will say there are better (or at least simpler) ways of creating the impression of interiors than this. Still you gotta admit, it's kind of impressive.

If you look closely you will see that there are no rooms where there are no windows; in other words I only modelled interior spaces that are visible from the outside. This means this is not a proper cutaway (for which I would have built a complete interior), it is more a warts-and-all exposé of one of my models.

I should explain that I didn't build all of these rooms by hand; I'm not that mad. I use the POV-Ray raytracer to create my pictures, and POV-Ray models are built using a scripting language which supports programming constructs like variables, expressions, conditions and loops. This allowed me to write algorithms for placing the windows and building the rooms, which means I can create a model with a thousand rooms in little more time than it takes to build one with only ten (although the number of rooms, or more accurately the number of windows, does have quite an impact on render time).

At present the rooms have people but no furniture, something I hope to correct in future. You may also notice that the room lighting is tinted to vary the colour, something I believe they did on TOS to make it look like they had more room sets than they actually did.

I have also rendered this picture with the outer walls in place [link] .

Rendered with POV-Ray 3.7 on Thursday 30th May 2013. Thanks go to *Reactor-Axe-Man for asking the original question and giving me the excuse to do this.