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Phaeton99 — Updated TARDIS X-Section
Published: 2012-05-22 18:08:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 14264; Favourites: 131; Downloads: 0
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An updated and elaborated version of my old TARDIS X-section Illustration.The background of the strange "onion" layer approach I have used here can be found with the original:
This new version is intended for direct use with the Prime Control cross-section project and reflects its particular details. It will likely appear in some corner of the final poster print.
The Poster:
In the process of updating, I am also actively working to reconcile this with the canon interpretations of TARDIS architecture, showing how the "Time Sceptre" in fact comprises the core structures around which a more elaborate complex could reasonably be constructed — and suggesting how stripped down the Doctor's derelict, old Type 40 had become in contrast to the fully outfitted expeditionary model shown here.
(No margin made for the popular, alternative "floating island" model of interlinked chambers, though — I simply find it too whimsical, unoriginal, and insufficiently weird-yet-logical for the work of a hyper-advanced alien civilization that routinely twists space and time to suit its whims and ambitions as a matter of course).
I will update the version here as it develops. It remains to be seen if I will offer a standalone print of this illustration when complete.
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By your design (not sure if it’s canon or fan made) a TARDIS is both a pocket universe and a Dyson sphere, which makes it, in of itself, a bad ass setting.
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Hi,
I was wondering if I could use your TARDIS cross-section artwork you created as a tattoo? I have two other Doctor Who tattoos and would love to have this one as a speaking point. I love how you got the true essence of the TARDIS, every part. I am asking for your permission first because it is only right to do so to use your intellectual property.
Thanks
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You interest is appreciated, however my work is not free-for-use. That said, I am not opposed to the idea and only some nominal compensation would be expected, not necessarily monetary.
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What nominal compensation are you looking for me to use your TARDIS x-section as a tattoo?
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Sorry for the slow reply — I failed to notice your new message among the other notifications.
The usual custom is to send a DA badge my way. Ilamas are the norm, but it can be any, really — just a token thing really, but it serves as a mark of good faith.
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How does your TARDIS console rooms move into place with the exterior doorway? Is it like a ship's wheel, you just turn it?
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Who knows? It could be set-up as almost anything, really: a wheel, a set of button, an ornate lever — depends on the esoteric tastes of the TARDIS' owner. I deliberately did not detail the various consoles to keep that aspect vague.
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What if the entrance is sort of like one of your omniifts directly connected to the TARDIS? All you need to connect the TARDIS to the outside world is a dimensional bridge, then it can go practically anywhere. Thanks for getting back so quickly. How've you been?
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Technically possible, of course, if a potential internal security risk. But like anything, it depends on the tastes of the given TARDIS' owner.
Arguably, one could also have the craft's "exterior" made be the thinest frame around a portal, reducing its presence to the barest minimum. It only needs t be big enough to allow transit through it, after all.
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I can see it working - after all some people see the interior dimension as part of a Time scepter hanging freely surrounded by modules and the dimensional bridge isn't a visible structure. It's a simple idea, but I like to view the TARDIS as a simple, though complicated machine as depicted by Time Lord Rassilon but I like your structure.
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You remember that chamber full of dangling baubles in "Journey to the Center of the TARDIS", which that idiotic salvage captain tried to pillage?
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Not to detract from your work's greatness, but it seems a little...undersized.
Perhaps this represents one just matured enough to install the "mil-spec" facilities shown?
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It is a simplified cross-section, and not to exact scale...not it can't contain non-Euclidean geometry and have compartments larger than the overall volume of the craft itself — being as it is a TARDIS and all.
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True. And honestly, I have no right to criticize. But some oft-mentioned rooms in even Doctor's "Old Sexy" wouldn't go amiss. I'd think even more hidebound Timelords would love a library.
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Present is a generic "expeditionary craft" in the plan, not any specific TARDIS — and one from a different era. A TARDIS can be configured in practically any form imaginable, after all, so one can accommodate any specialized compartments one may need or desire. Certainly, no two craft of even the "grand old days" were quite alike, tailored to the personal tastes of their masters.
In this vein, the Doctor's TARDIS is very much a reflection of him, in all its quirkiness — and occasional shabbiness.
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True....but I maintain that time travelers, *especially* on a long voyage, would like a dedicated archival room.
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No doubt, and quirky ones will insist that it looks like the Gand Library in Salem.
(I know I would)
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I really like the Golden Age TARDIS, will there be a print of that?
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An update to the best TARDIS interior schematic I've ever seen. Very nice work!
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To my knowledge, TARDIS interior schematics — beyond a control room and a few compartments around it — are a rather rare undertaking.
I might not have resorted to making my own if there were many serious examples to be found.*
I suppose this should come as no surprise, given how it is not exactly an easy task to visualize a sufficiently exotic layout. One risks being either too conventional — and ending up conceptually indistinguishable from so many sci-fi plans — or simplistically whimsical in a fashion that fails to suggest that this is still a technology, albeit nigh magical in its advanced character.
Even the series creators have seemed tasked to delve into the details through the years And I suspect that says a great deal about the matter...
(*though I probably would have anyway.)
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I very much agree. Every time I see a TARDIS interior schematic that makes it look like just another big space station floating in a magic void I cringe.
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I can easily envision this design "extruded" into real space.
It might present something of a sinister appearance: irregular gaps in polished black, nested spheres creating deep crags and fissures into the interior, yet revealing nothing but eerie glows and shifting shadows; strange protrusions pulsing; and improbable disconnected portions and mysterious objects maintaining perfect alignments — some perhaps even mobile, shifting and passing through each other in ways that defy physical laws.
I can likewise imagine a scenario in which the Doctor and his companions come across the wreck of an ancient, "grounded" craft like this on some remote world. To their utter amazement, he informs them that it is the exposed inner mass of a crashed grand TARDIS, the like of which even the Time Lords have almost forgotten...
This might make for an interesting story of exploration, temporal hi-jinx, and lurking horrors — in short, typical Doctor Who fare.
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Ha, and why not! It's a complex transdimensional object - consider Flatland (or Carl Sagan's rather nifty précis thereof), and then think about how something that exists in higher dimensions would look when fully exposed to our limited three-dimensional senses... especially when it's broken down and falling apart.
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excellent work! still working on mine.. I am collaborating with the "whoniverse website" owner..
let me know if you want in on the Time Lord Compendium, or the "A guide to the Doctor's Tardis".
all credit goes to you for your contributions, as well as showcasing your artistic talent.
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Thank you.
I know to little about the Compendium or Guide, so I really can offer little at this point. Send me note with details, if you would.
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