Compiled by Nesssus but please read Readme.txt for full credits. A Ringworld Windows Theme for Windows 95 and 98. Will need the Windows Plus Pack to be used to its fullest although individual files can be installed manually.
Desktop Theme
Ringworld Wallpaper
In response to requests from the Larry Niven Mailing List for More Ringworld Themes, here is some additional wallpaper taken from images from our own Gallery. To save size these files are all saved as jpegs. If you do not have Windows 98 or later you will need to convert these files to Bitmaps (BMP) before installing them on your systems.
To download, click on the thumbnail image or on the links below, the picture will load in a new window. Just click File and Save As. If anyone has any high quality pictures not featured here which may be resized at large resolutions, let the Known Space Managers know by email.
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Virtual Reality
A series of Ringworld based Quicktime VRs created by Fred S. Kuentz of ARTIMATION
Fred has created scrollable views of the Ringworld, covering over 180º of arc. I feel that the animation of the Ringworld in space encompassing its central star and also of the shot of the Ring Wall are particularly effective (strangely enough, this is the first time that an artist has showed the one of the 1,000 mile high edges of the Ringworld close up). To use these animations and view them properly, download Quicktime (v4 or later), to manipulate the animations put your cursor on the viewing window and then click and drag the view around, have fun!
Sounds
Ringworld by Milo Black. We're sorry, but these seem to have disappeared from mp3.com. If you know how we can get copies, please let on of the webmasters know so we can either replace the links or host the files locally.
The Phlogiston Belt: Changing Science and the Hard SF Writer (20Mb MP3 56Kbps 50 min)
Larry
comments on how his first story, The Coldest Place was obsolete
almost before it was published when the first space probes approached
Mercury and found that it was not a one face planet, and also on
the phenomenon of Flash Crowds on Internet websites.
This recording courtesy of Deltos
Fleet Computing.
This
MP3 recording, made by Steven R. Station at the recent Phil Con (or
MilPhil) is of Larry Niven, Stephen Baxter, Jack McDevitt (M),
Derryl Murphy, and Stanley Schmidt at a panel entitled
"The Phlogiston Belt: Changing Science and the Hard SF Writer"
where they discuss how *real* recent scientific discoveries
invalidate their stories.
More artwork can be found in the Known Space Gallery