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Acinonyx Jubatus' Designing Topic; The topic in which Acinonyx Jubatus shows his Designings
Topic Started: Mar 6 2015, 10:25 PM (66,981 Views)
magpiealamode
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No good hero is a one-trick phony.

Wow, you've done well as per usual. Definitely not what I would have had in mind for a Giraffatitan even from you, but I'm on board. I mean, if you're that size, why the hell would you not be bright blue?
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antek234
May 14 2018, 01:50 PM
But wouldn't the blood 'travel' better in horizontal neck?
Probably, but is that really relevant? Sauropods were psycho-extreme animals that seemed to scoff at any idea of limits. Even something as huge as Giraffatitan was small when compared to some of the giants out there. Yes, it may have taken more energy to push blood up a vertical neck, but clearly these animals had energy to spare, or at least some way of minimizing the expense. Giraffatitan in particular seemed to be extremely dedicated to increasing verticality- their entire body, as well as their neck, is angled strongly upward. As well, animals of all varieties seem to have a habit of angling their necks as far back as possible when at rest. There's no reason to assume sauropods were any different.
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antek234
May 14 2018, 01:50 PM
But wouldn't the blood 'travel' better in horizontal neck?
i remember reading about that problem but in giraffes i think that their(the giraffes') solution was to have a fairly large and strong heart to pump the blood up to the head that was 18 feet in the air, so we can only assume the brachiosaurids had a similar solution: bigger animal, longer neck, bigger heart. :dino: :dino:
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This fella strongly reminds me of the Brachiosaur slide from the original game :P
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Really lovely Brachiosaurus,
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No good hero is a one-trick phony.

Don't giraffes have valves in their neck to keep blood from flowing the wrong direction? I assume brachiosaurs would have had the same.
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Furka
May 14 2018, 02:23 PM
This fella strongly reminds me of the Brachiosaur slide from the original game :P
Yep, that was my inspiration. :) I had just unlocked it and was reading it's zoopedia article, and it said something like "you couldn't keep the actual animal enclosed" and I was like "challenge accepted."
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Mind if I tell ya somethin'? I had a feeling that the teaser image may have been manipulated a bit, heh. I really like this Giraffatitan, I really do!
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Acinonyx Jubatus
May 14 2018, 02:02 PM
Probably, but is that really relevant? Sauropods were psycho-extreme animals that seemed to scoff at any idea of limits.
It is more relevant than you're giving it room for. Sauropods were just animals, the fact that they grew to sizes unmatched by any extant animal and occupied niches that are now vacant does not mean they're somehow free of biological constrains - we're pretty well aware they weren't and had to obey basic laws of physics and biology. Matters little that we go "whoa" when looking at them.
Acinonyx Jubatus
May 14 2018, 02:02 PM
As well, animals of all varieties seem to have a habit of angling their necks as far back as possible when at rest. There's no reason to assume sauropods were any different.
Incorrect. Animals do not angle necks back to rest, instead they angle their necks in a position where the muscles do the least work. Best bet here is, IMO, that they'd be in neutral, not arched position, considering dinosaur fossils show post-mortem arch as result of soft tissue shrinking and contracting the muscles and thus the neck backwards.

I'm not sold on the "absence of evidence is evidence of absence" in this case, as with anything out there. Using scales from an entirely different diapsid clade is less reasonable than using hadrosaur mummy, considering we know macronarian scales resembled those of hadrosaurs more than those of lizards.

Interesting colour choice, though :)
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Similis
May 14 2018, 11:44 PM
Acinonyx Jubatus
May 14 2018, 02:02 PM
Probably, but is that really relevant? Sauropods were psycho-extreme animals that seemed to scoff at any idea of limits.
It is more relevant than you're giving it room for. Sauropods were just animals, the fact that they grew to sizes unmatched by any extant animal and occupied niches that are now vacant does not mean they're somehow free of biological constrains - we're pretty well aware they weren't and had to obey basic laws of physics and biology. Matters little that we go "whoa" when looking at them.
I understand that. But my point was that these animals weren't exactly pushing the limits of their physiology. They had lots of room for experimentation and doing weird things like having vertical necks.

Similis
May 14 2018, 11:44 PM
Acinonyx Jubatus
May 14 2018, 02:02 PM
As well, animals of all varieties seem to have a habit of angling their necks as far back as possible when at rest. There's no reason to assume sauropods were any different.
Incorrect. Animals do not angle necks back to rest, instead they angle their necks in a position where the muscles do the least work. Best bet here is, IMO, that they'd be in neutral, not arched position, considering dinosaur fossils show post-mortem arch as result of soft tissue shrinking and contracting the muscles and thus the neck backwards.
Hmm. Interesting. Well, I guess angled-back necks are the easiest positions for most animals then. That or SV-POW is mistaken. Either way, it seems to me that a huge, heavy structure like a brachiosaur neck would use up less energy when balanced over the legs than when leaned way out. I could be wrong, though.

Similis
May 14 2018, 11:44 PM
I'm not sold on the "absence of evidence is evidence of absence" in this case, as with anything out there. Using scales from an entirely different diapsid clade is less reasonable than using hadrosaur mummy, considering we know macronarian scales resembled those of hadrosaurs more than those of lizards.
I'll be honest, I've never been able to find a large enough swath of Hadrosaur skin to be useful in skinning. And I've looked. The impressions are just too fragmentary.

Similis
May 14 2018, 11:44 PM
Interesting colour choice, though :)
Thank you! :)
Edited by Acinonyx Jubatus, May 15 2018, 12:08 AM.
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Aaah, the great anti-shrinkwrapper has done it again! I bow to you, AJ! And since this Giraff will use custom animations, i'm sure it will open many new possibilities for designig in the future.
Edited by Dino-Mario, May 15 2018, 08:48 PM.
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Dino-Mario
May 15 2018, 08:47 PM
Aaah, the great anti-shrinkwrapper has done it again! I bow to you, AJ! And since this Giraff will use custom animations, i'm sure it will open many new possibilities for designig in the future.
Save your bowing for someone who actually deserves it. And yes, that's my plan. I look forward to seeing what other people do with it!
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Update time.

So, since absolutely everything ingame is completely inadequate for containing a fifteen-meter tall, 30-tonne megaherbivore, I've made a fence for containing your Giraffatitan. Made of reinforced concrete and measuring nine meters high, it should stand up to even the most mighty of temper tantrums.

There will be a windowed version as well so your guests can see through it, but I recommend placing an elevated path around the top for an even better view.

SAUROPOD SECURITY FENCE

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Oh that looks cool!
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*dies from hype*
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