Known Space: The Future Worlds of Larry Niven

This page displays some views of The Ringworld. Click on the thumbnails to view larger images. Artists' names are all given, with email addresses and personal web page url's where possible. If you have any images you'd like to contribute, please email the webmasters.

	This image of the Ringworld was from IaachCapt@aol.com.

	These images of the Ringworld courtesy of courtesy of Bill Seiler

	This image produced by Harry Frank using Photoshop.

	A series of images by Mark Woolrich and a few also by John C. Atkeson. This is only a taste of what is available on his own site at: http://www.hellcrown.com/ringworld. Mark's site includes information about the Ringworld and images developed in series. Mark has also created a movie animation that you can download of the approach to the Ringworld, which is available on this site's Media page.

	This image was produced by Django Shagnasty. The flaring effect of the sun was actually an accident in the rendering process. The problem for doing any accurate representation is the raw scale of the Ringworld is not many modeling packages will allow you to use an item 93 million miles in radius! Well Django, the best of luck with your next attempt. I personally think that the flaring sun is ok as it could be showing the star's laser effect just before it fires on you. For the next picture in the series, go to the next page, ships and vehicles which contains a shot of the Liar, minus it's wing, of course. Think of it as the before and after flare pictures.

	Image created by Bill Pragnell. Bill wrote "...the image viewpoint is about 5000 miles above the ring floor, about 1000 miles in from the mountains. The clouds are about 200 miles from the ring floor. I need to think of how to get them to go all the way to the mountains. Everything else about the pic is dead on in terms of dimensions......".

	This image was created by Dagon. Dagon used a previous image of the Ringworld by Mark Woolrich and combined it with an earthly visage using Photoshop in an effort to explain to his wife the concept of the Ringworld. This picture could represent the Ringworld as seen from the shore of one of the Great Oceans.

	These image was created by Dave King of scifiimages.com. Dave's intention was not to make the image on the left to scale but to exaggerate the dimensions for artistic effect. The new image on the right has been produced to be more to scale.

	This image created by Tim Russell of the Great Oceans. Tim created this image using a 3D landscape rendering progam and Adobe Photoshop 6.0.
	Tim also created this rendering of Fist of God as seen from space using Terragen v.0.8 to render the landscapes in these and Photoshop 6 to do everything else.