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by **Gigafreak** on Wed Mar 05, 2003 6:14 pm

It's everyone's favorite minion of 3vil, Hayasaka Kosei. Comes complete with Mirari sword and Sacred Railgun. Pocky not included.

I'm working on an unnecessarily cool wallpaper version, but it won't be finished for a few days at best.

by **Wildmartin** on Wed Mar 05, 2003 6:16 pm

Coolness Gigafreak!

by **Loweko** on Wed Mar 05, 2003 7:37 pm

Snazzy!

by **Loweko** on Wed Mar 05, 2003 7:38 pm

Snazzy!

here! · by **Silver Adept** on Wed Mar 05, 2003 7:40 pm

Not nearly 3v1l enough. Diet Cokey at best. Needs more... 3v1l. Looks kinda UF-like, where I suppose I'm expecting something in a more anime style.

by **Pseudonym** on Wed Mar 05, 2003 10:18 pm

Um..maybe it just me, but it looks like Dave in drag.

by **Fletcher** on Wed Mar 05, 2003 11:16 pm

Pseudonym wrote:Um..maybe it just me, but it looks like Dave in drag.

Ladies and gentlemen, the new Roomies 22/7 mascot!

by **heckler&koch** on Wed Mar 05, 2003 11:18 pm

theres something wrong, all i can see is the red X of DOOM, could you link to it?

by **Joel Fagin** on Thu Mar 06, 2003 2:30 am

I'm sorry, but we can't have a piece of artwork without some pedantic quibble - technical, in this case.

That's not a railgun.

A railgun consists of two parallel conductors, the "rails," bridged by a non-ferromagnetic conducting armature. The railgun is fired by creating a current loop that flows from some large power source, down one rail, across the slug, and back up the other rail. This current loop induces an enormous magnetic field which, in turn, pushes the armature down the rails with a force proportional to the magnitude of the current, the separation distance of the rails, and the magnetic field.

The primary difference in effect between a rail gun and a chemical fired weapon is that gunpowder delivers the equivalent of a sharp kick where as the rail gun provides a constant (but high) acceleration down the length of the rail. In order to be effective, the rail must therefore be quite long. Otherwise you get a bullet that goes "phut".

Clear? Well, never mind. The key points are that you need two rails and that these things are usually very long. That gun has no rails and is far too short. You'd also be very unlikely to get a double barrelled rail gun due to the room required by the rails and the stray capacitance between them.

Was that worth typing up? I don't think so.

Nice pic, BTW.

- Joel Fagin

by **MTalos** on Thu Mar 06, 2003 6:11 am

Not if you have really effective rails. And it looks more like double-barrled railed guy IMO

by **Jappus** on Thu Mar 06, 2003 6:48 am

Joel Fagin wrote:[snipped Railgun description]

Well, well, nice description but that principle is simply too darn ineffective. A real EMA (ElectroMagnetic Accelerator) would simply use two solenoids. The first one creates a magnetic field in the bullet, which is made of "hard metal" (here "hard" is the term to decribe magnetical hardness, not physical). Usually you would use special alloys for that. Now you deactivate the first solenoid. Then you release a spring to push the, now magnetic, bullet into the second solenoid. If the bullet passes the middle of the second solenoid, you activate it. The solenoid builds up another electromagnetic field but this time the polarity is exactly the opposite of the first one. The bullet is still loaded with the old magnetic field and is therefore drawn to the end of the second solenoid and after it left the solenoid, it is pushed away from it.

The magnetic energy stored in the bullet plus the EM-field of the second solenoid is enough to easily reach hypersonic speeds. The recoil is extremely weak because there is no explosion and no direct contact with the barrel. There are only three minor problems:

1.) The energy needed to charge the bullet and the two solenoids plus the energy needed to reuse the spring averages around some MegaWatt. Not an easily available amount of energy.
2.) The solenoids are heating up practically instantaneous, and they usually OVERHEAT.
3.) The acceleration is so strong that the bullet will break immediately after leaving the barrel.

You see, the EMA is already available in theory but practical results are decades away. We simply lack the needed metals to build the weapons and the energy to feed it...

And you don

Website · by **bruceluis** on Thu Mar 06, 2003 7:29 am

Hehehe. Nice. Except for the face, which doesn't look very female.

by **Hayasaka Kosei** on Thu Mar 06, 2003 9:08 am

Chopsticks of DOOM!

by **TomS** on Thu Mar 06, 2003 9:27 am

C

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by **heckler&koch** on Thu Mar 06, 2003 10:07 am

nice pic.

by **Teresias** on Thu Mar 06, 2003 11:37 am

Sweeeeet! ^_^

Now all you need is her tapping into Hammerspace and you've got it made. ^_-

by **Pseudonym** on Thu Mar 06, 2003 12:57 pm

I still say it looks like Dave in drag.

Now, don't get me wrong. I think, it's very nice. It just looks like Dave in drag.

In other news, time to start my Despot Countdown again.

(97 posts to Despot...)

by **joshlamont** on Thu Mar 06, 2003 1:41 pm

It does... that's the first thing I thought before I saw the words above the picture!

Point:

The hair: Way too little, too thin.
The cheekbone: Too harsh (acceptable if other features are over-girly, though)
The eyebrows: Girls don't have thick eyebrows
(I hate to mention this) the breasts: They don't have to be large - just non-confusable with a guy's chest

Also, a girl's hips are generally as wide as her shoulders, whereas a guy's are smaller than his shoulders.

Great concept, though!

by **Joel Fagin** on Thu Mar 06, 2003 4:02 pm

Jappus wrote:
Joel Fagin wrote:[snipped Railgun description]

*snip other railgun description*

I think that's a gauss gun. A rail gun would, well, need rails. You might as well call a Bereta a revolver.

- Joel Fagin

by **Gigafreak** on Thu Mar 06, 2003 4:28 pm

Joel Fagin wrote:
Jappus wrote:
Joel Fagin wrote:[snipped Railgun description]

*snip other railgun description*

I think that's a gauss gun. A rail gun would, well, need rails. You might as well call a Bereta a revolver.

- Joel Fagin

Meh. I know what a railgun is made of, how it works, etc. I just couldn't come up with a sweet weapon design that looks like a railgun, and if it gets any longer than this, it gets unwieldly. Well, since we can't get effective railguns right now anyway, let's pretend it's made from future technology (i.e. the rails are coiled up or something) like most warthread weapons these days are anyway.
...Besides, I gave her (Yes, "I." I regretted it ever since) two of the things, and she keeps insisting she has one, so I made a weapon that looks like two guns put together. Thus, shot/rail-gun.

And the proportions and other nitpicks:
...There are no eybrows in this picture. Those are eyelids. I can't draw eyebrows too well, so you can cry to Josh Phillips about it. *:P Thppppppppppt

"
The face... That's why everyone thought my last picture was a guy! Dammit, I need to learn how to draw feminine angry faces...
As for the body...
Hips: Didn't know that. Gotta try harder next time.
Chest: Her chest isn't big, her belly is small. Or maybe both.
Her right shoe: What you call a right shoe, I call an abomination to all feet. This is why I never draw sandals. It was far worse before I edited it in Photoshop.

Thanks to everyone who called it cool, though!

Dave in drag? No, not quite.

Hmm. I oughtta try it again with a non-cartoony style. Ah, well, I'll put up the wallpaper-ized version and get right on it, I suppose.

Silver Adept wrote:Not nearly 3v1l enough. Diet Cokey at best.

Whoops. Wrong personality aspect... Diet Cokey as in saccharine? Great, now I bet the "Kawaii" focus will end up getting the 3vil that fled from this one.

Edit:
Okay, wallpaper desktop background finished. It's a whole lot less cool than I thought.

Here's the preview:

And here's the real thing. 1280x1024, so it's a huge file.

by **Jappus** on Fri Mar 07, 2003 7:14 am

Joel Fagin wrote:
Jappus wrote:
Joel Fagin wrote:[snipped Railgun description]

*snip other railgun description*

I think that's a gauss gun. A rail gun would, well, need rails. You might as well call a Bereta a revolver.

Ya know, I said that it wasn

by **eitje** on Fri Mar 07, 2003 9:12 am

Jappus wrote:
Joel Fagin wrote:
Jappus wrote:
Joel Fagin wrote:[snipped Railgun description]

*snip other railgun description*

I think that's a gauss gun. A rail gun would, well, need rails. You might as well call a Bereta a revolver. :)

*snip a gauss gun description*

i just think it's some sweet art (if manly - try curves instead of angles) of a girl with a gun and a big sword.

of course, i'm sure i missed the article in "Physics Weekly" where they explained how a tiny girl can carry on her back (with ease) a sword that is nearly as long as she is tall, and probably weighs the same or more as she does! ;)

by **Jappus** on Fri Mar 07, 2003 10:26 am

eitje wrote:of course, i'm sure i missed the article in "Physics Weekly" where they explained how a tiny girl can carry on her back (with ease) a sword that is nearly as long as she is tall, and probably weighs the same or more as she does!

Easy: It

by **eitje** on Fri Mar 07, 2003 1:04 pm

Jappus wrote:
eitje wrote:of course, i'm sure i missed the article in "Physics Weekly" where they explained how a tiny girl can carry on her back (with ease) a sword that is nearly as long as she is tall, and probably weighs the same or more as she does! ;)

Easy: It

by **pennyangelos** on Fri Mar 07, 2003 4:03 pm

Hrrrmmm. To be honest, it's a bit too Dragon Ball for my taste. You did a good job of it, though!

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