Prometheus Mapping Drones

If you have seen Ridley Scott's new movie Prometheus you probably noticed one interesting invention: a laser scanning flying device that can map the interior/area around it as it scans it's environment while floating around. I personally think it's a very cool tool to explore and map out a unknown area and terriority. 

(Prometheus mapping device)


The red glowing balls we've seen flying through the tunnels in the latest trailers, are revealed as Spectagraphs and are invented in 2063: "Weyland Industries earns patent number 17,900,353 for Method and Apparatus for an antigravity device that 3D live-maps any foreign terrain, revolutionizing the pre-process of terraforming and developing new colonies."
 

The Scene where they deploy some cool looking little mapping drones that they launch into the air and they shoot off down the tunnels, scanning the surface with lasers and streaming back topographic data as they go.
The drones do their thing and the command team back on the ship watch as they start to build up a picture. In this diagram I'm presuming the team members are the little yellow diamonds and the red points are the mapping drones. The green cylindrical shapes are the tunnels they have covered. The archaelogical team start looking around whilst the mapping drones give them a more accurate picture of their surroundings and they discover some hieroglyphs that correspond to the images they found on Earth. They were right and the puzzle seems to make sense. David makes the discovery and informs the rest of the team which only serves to make him look more suspicious. The mapping drones finish their work as they have hit a dead-end. The team move to see what is blocking their way and find a door with the probes pressed against it, trying to go deeper into the structure.  

Someone attempts to the the scanning ball drone like the one in Prometheus the movie


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Autumn Dynasty

Autumn Dynasty
Finally a worthy Game App from Singapore worth the mention and time! Autumn Dynasty is a beautiful, clever strategy game for the iPad.
Autumn Dynasty began life as the work of a group of ridiculously over-achieving bright spots at the National University of Singapore,

And If you've got an iPad and you loveeeeeee strategy games, I seriously recommend giving Autumn Dynasty a go. It's an RTS set in feudal China. You're tasked with saving your Empire from civil war with judicious use of swordsmen, pikemen, archers, horsemen and catapults.
The game is beautifully optimised for the iPad's touchscreen. Finger-strokes let you draw a path for units to traverse to their destination, a circle lets you select more than one unit at once, and two fingers, slightly apart, let you scan around the map.
The key is construction sites. As you play, you'll come across places where you can spend gold to build farms, camps, forts and towers. Farms increase your gold income, camps let you field more units at once, forts let you build new units and towers let you fortify defensive positions. The challenge is in balancing up the needs of a situation with the few building sites in your possession -- especially when that situation changes over the course of a battle.

It's not just a single-player experience, either. You can play multiplayer games through the web or over Bluetooth, complete with voice chat, and if you do exhaust the story-based single-player campaign then it's simple to set up skirmish matches against AI opponents.

All of this is rendered in a heart-meltingly beautiful cross between a battle map and an oriental landscape painting, complete with brushstrokes on a canvas. The detail packed in is impressive -- units have distinct personalities, and it's easy to tell how well or badly a battle is going with a short glance. Best of all, it doesn't bombard you with demands to buy additional freemium items constantly -- what you see is what you get.

The game started life as a student project at the National University of Singapore, which was a finalist in the 2009 Independent Games Festival China student competition. It didn't win, but the team became part of Singapore-based studio Touch Dimensions, who teamed up with Bulkypix to bring it to the App Store.
It comes in at a mere £2.99 for a limited time post-release, but expect that to jump up after a while. For fans of beautiful, deep, strategy games that you can get lost in, it comes highly recommended.

Autumn Dynasty Official Trailer







http://youtu.be/24gLsFe4e4s