Finally! A definitive answer on the real size of Atlantis

[FallenAngelII]

yea, it was a large city in Rising.

i also remember a few points in the show where they said the city was very large, taking a while to search the hole thing. but if its that big, they could have it searched and explored in under a month.

Dr. Rodney McKay stated that "It would be like searching every room in every building in Manhattan" to search the entire city.

[ancientaction]

Dr. Rodney McKay stated that "It would be like searching every room in every building in Manhattan" to search the entire city.

thank you, i couldn't remember the exact quote

[O'Neil]

Like I said in a previous thread....

There are several versions of atlantis. Rainmaker modeled the first initial city (first season), but now for the second season, Rainmaker doesnt handle all of the CG aspects of the show. There are other studio's which are doing work for the show now, so they modeled their own city. Each one looks different and im pretty sure they are scaled differently, but relatively keeping the same look and feel.

[jhkplaya888]

awww it so small i wish it was bigger....it doesnt seam so cool now is is bigger then a asgard ship?
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[Amanda Eros]

I really hate sounding stupid, but I've never been good at math and am too lazy to find a way on the internet to do the converstions. So what does all of that mean in Miles? or feet?

[O'Neil]

from one side to the other is 1.3 kilometers which roughly equals .81 of a mile.

[Peoples_General]

This is what happens when you switch around your CGI guys, and the n00bs have no clue of the previous story's canon.

It went from the 21km long Manhattan sized ships with a central tower being 1.5km tall to something slightly smaller than Anubis' flagship.

BTW... here's some conversions for the metrically challenged.
1 mile = 1.6 km
1 inch = 2.54 cm
1 yard = 0.914 m

[Cory Holmes]

This is what happens when you switch around your CGI guys, and the n00bs have no clue of the previous story's canon.

It went from the 21km long Manhattan sized ships with a central tower being 1.5km tall to something slightly smaller than Anubis' flagship.

Thing is, it was only "Manhattan-sized" in the show's dialog. As posted above, the original FX group seriously undersized the model right from the start.

Why, oh why couldn't they have used this?

[O'Neil]

Thing is, it was only "Manhattan-sized" in the show's dialog. As posted above, the original FX group seriously undersized the model right from the start.

Why, oh why couldn't they have used this?

For one thing, the polygon count of the city would have been thru the roof, and that would have seriously increased render times (even for a large renderfarm).

[Cory Holmes]

For one thing, the polygon count of the city would have been thru the roof, and that would have seriously increased render times (even for a large renderfarm).

Again, why allow reality to intrude on a perfectly good rant/fantasy?

[Peoples_General]

The only reality is that the CGI guys SCREWED UP!

[nhall]

.83 of a mile? That can't be a right figure as far as the city size then. When Weir locked down the city in "HOT ZONE" Teyla and Sheppard were over a mile away from the central spire in the gym, which was somewhere in the middle of one of the piers.

[Peoples_General]

The problem is that apparently the CGI n00bs didn't get the memo from either the previous CGI peeps nor TPTB to have the Ancients as builders of massive stuff. This the Ancients we're talking about, if the size of the city is 0.83 of a mile then the central spire of Atlantis would be SHORTER than the Empire State building which doesn't make sense. Here's an super-advanced civilization, and yet they can't build a structure taller than those built by us not-so-advanced Earthers???

Gimme a break.

[Akaviri]

I'm getting tired of all these cgi screw ups that have to do with size. I just hope they get their act together and do things right next season.

[newtrekker]

I thought that Atlantis was 4-5km wide. It looked that big to me and the Daedalus is probably 200-300m long.