Holy shit, videogames are real!!!111

JKMakowka · Dec 2004

http://www.g-cans.jp/photo/index.html

Pictures of the Tokyo underground water system

steady · Dec 2004

those pictures are amazing, hell those underground water systems are amazing, crazy japanese!
these are just begging to be mapped out into a deathmatch level...

John Warner · Dec 2004

Matrix??

FatAssasin · Dec 2004

Eric beat you to it. This link has been in the "2D and 3D/Reference Thread" thread for a while. But, yeah, it cool. Did the water system inspire anime/video game designs, or the other way around?

JBoskma · Dec 2004

So you are saying that this stuff is ingame?

JKMakowka · Dec 2004

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Yeah, the specmap is a bit too bright on that model

But damn, I should have checked that reference thread in 2d&3d first

Eric Chadwick · Dec 2004

You're not stealing my thunder, Garry Clarke originally posted the link on the Discreet webboard, and he got it from another forum. Round and round she goes...

Some info he posted about it...

Tokyo is an impressive city above ground, but one of the most incredible
things about this city is it's mind-bogglingly complex underground. The
G-Cans Project is a massive project, begun 12 years ago, to build
infrastructure for preventing overflow of the major rivers and waterways
spidering the city (A serious problem for Tokyo during rainy-season and
typhoon season). The underground waterway is the largest in the world and
sports five 32m diameter, 65m deep concrete containment silos which are
connected by 64 kilometers of tunnel sitting 50 meters beneath the surface.
The whole system is powered by 14000 horsepower turbines which can pump 200
tons of water a second into the large outlying edogawa river. I'm in the
middle of playing Halflife2 right now and something like this looks like its
straight out of the game or some sci-fi movie. This unbelievable gallery of
photos however, is not CG, it is the real deal.

The site is all in Japanese, but if you click around the menus a bit, there
are animations and diagrams of how the system works, and other interesting
photos of the high-tech control center and turbine facilities. Supposedly
the G-Cans project is also meant to be a tourist attraction, and can be
visited for free. very cool.

Mark Dygert · Dec 2004

I also managed to find this link about the G-Can project. Google was nice enough to translate it for me, so it may not be 100% readible but might answer a few questions?
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl...%3Doff%26sa%3DG

Also managed to translate the G-Can Project site: Hopefully it will make a bit more sense. It continues to translate as you move around the site

http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&...%3Doff%26sa%3DG

artgoon · Dec 2004

Reminds me of Doom with much better lighting!

adam · Dec 2004

Hey, saw these a week ago and wanted to post them here but I lost the link. Glad someone got around to it. Those pictures truly are videogame'esque. Phenomenal architecture.

palm · Dec 2004

I want my office to look like that.=)
Really cool pics.
Thanks for the link.

/Palm

Joshua Stubbles · Dec 2004

Actually, I have a book at work with these images in it

Great design elements, imo.
Looks like Halflife 2 (inner citadel, anyone?), Doom3 and even Lord of the Rings has taken some inspiration from those wacky Japanese

gauss · Dec 2004

Vassago: haha, no the LoTR great Dwarven halls you're thinking of were based off of the illustrations based off the writings of Tolkien... somehow I doubt these were constructed, or if they were Tolkien ever got around to visiting them

but these are super awesome photos. would love to take a tour if i ever make it to tokyo

Joshua Stubbles · Dec 2004

Well, maybe the japanese took inspiration from Tolkien! muhaha
Either way, it's some pretty damn impressive achitecture.

Mr.Reacto · Dec 2004

The Japanese are always #1 in the entertainment industry.

Holy shit, videogames are real!!!111

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