I feel sorry for Calcifer having to haul those giant naval turrets around all the time. They look chopped down, but 16" guns can weigh a solid 100 tons each and they're placed so high on the structure.
If you want to see how far we have come, look at the animation of the castle Back then, this pseudo 3D with its shifting and moving elements was revolutionary, cutting edge stuff. Every frame a marvel In 2018, indie game Figment used that technique as an art style at 60 frames per second
it uses treads instead of legs but there IS a moving structure roughly the weight of howls moving castle (its 13k tons), that has moved long distances under its own power....bagger 288! it even has rouhgly the same aesthetic
Oh nice! I hadn’t considered construction equipment, but that thing is huge! I wonder if the folks who work on it even spend the night. I bet there’s a bathroom too. Could be quite similar!
small addition. many places liked to move buildings. and the city of Moscow in the Soviet Union was no exception. for example, Savvinskoye Compound weighs approximately 23,000 tons. there was movement - this is a fact, but the weight is probably approximate. "Саввинское подворье" - Россия, Москва, Тверская улица, дом 6
It’s not nearly as big or impressive as Howl’s castle or the school, but in Hirosaki, Japan they moved a castle in order to rebuild walls and it’s set to be moved back to its original position in 2025! Cool stuff. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirosaki_Castle
so thoughts about the inside... what if the inside is freefloating ish kinda like how a mic stabilisation thingy works yk those little bands holding your mic in place if you have a studio mic the exterior absorbs the shock and the fact the room is magicaly floating in the middle (or because i think its funny to imagine the room being held up by millions of rubber bands, you could imagine that) it makes it so the people inside genuinely feel the movement a lot less and what if thats the only part that "moves" whenever they use the door
One of the Anime houses I am often thinking about and would really love to know if they could be doable, is the retractable houses of neo Tokyo in Neon Genesis Evangelion. There is even a miniature size version of it ru-vid.comVGl4Qs5E1cw But would it be possible with real houses. how would water and electricity work. How much safety would you get? I really want to know all about them
Hmmm, like a retractable city block! That’s super cool, it reminds of spinning houses, that I’ve read can be very tricky from plumbing and electrical perspective since those types of utilities don’t like to move, but here, perhaps you could work with flexible ducts/pipes to extend up to the surface. That be a system of its own! Thanks for adding that
@@onstructures I think in the original Anime they did not retracted the city block but every building individualy. Haven't seen it for quite some time though. The flexible pipes could be one way of solving the problem. However I personally would solve it another way. Since there is never a need to have the buildings half way, you know the exact start and stopping location of the valves. So you could detach the valves in one location and then reattach other valves on the downward location. You can do that with pretty much all valves and also electricity I think. ofc with closing mechanisms.
