The Mother Hive

Consider purpose, means and ends.

Consider a culture where exclusive well-being of the group is a way of life; where individual initiative and creativity are solely bent to the good for all and only that.

Consider totalitarianism and utilitarianism.

Consider urbanism.

Consider the hive.

We are looking at what is generally known as “The Mother Hive”, the hub of an ever expanding wave of daughter hives, spiralling outwards, strictly planned and built according to the laws of engineering and geometric beauty. The very first hive was appropriately called the Fibonacci Locus. It used the Golden Angle as its basic building principle, and the Founding Mothers used that same Golden Angle to plan and expand the ever growing number of daughter hives, slowly pushing back barbarism, uncontrolled potentials and anarchy. Now, they have almost succeeded in…

The present image is rendered withour radiosity. A radiosity version is currently being rendered but will not be ready before the end of October. In due time it will be revealed.

Each hive is built from two simple elements (mesh2): a globe on a long stalk and individual globes. Three layers of globes are thus generated using the Golden Angle (137.5 degrees) for their distribution. From above, they may look like sunflowers.

Then, hives were distributed in the same way, using again the Golden Angle. However, only the visible hives were kept to speed up parsing and render time.

The ornithopters are mesh2 objects, originally built in Silo2. The landscape is a very simple height_field, only detailed in the visible part of the image. Trees were made with POV-Tree and the other vegetation derives from a bamboo macro I wrote a long time ago.

Sky and sunlight were made with LightSysIV; clouds with a macro by Zeger Knaepen.