There are many beautiful interpretations of Rama on the net, which can be found with a simple Google image search. There are several clusters of buildings on the Raman plains, which are dubbed cities (although they are deserted and apparently not inhabitable), as well as six light emitting strips that function as artificial suns. It contains a breathable atmosphere and its rotation provides artificial gravity on its inner plains, which are divided by a Cylindrical Sea that runs all around Rama. In case you haven’t read the novel, Rama is an ancient, hollow, cylindrical spacecraft that is 50 km long. I’ve read it twice now and was completely engrossed both times – I can’t recommend this book enough! I decided I wanted to recreate the titular spaceship using CGI, and have been working on it occasionally in my spare time over the past few years. I’ve recently been reading some of the old Sci-Fi masters, and I really fell in love with Arthur C. Update Sept 2020: see this new blog post for Rama v1.0!
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