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17 Aug 2024 22:25:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: WIP: Active Stargate  
From: Steven Pigeon
Date: 14 Aug 2001 00:41:57
Message: <3B78AC6A.29EF1856@iro.umontreal.ca>
Andrea Ryan wrote:

> The ring itself looks like the real thing (uh, prop) in the movie.  It
> looks like it has been partly buried for support.  I don't remember
> seeing the red lights in the movie.

Well, in the movie, and in the series, the chevrons (red thingies)
lock one after the other, lighting up red. When all chevrons are
set, the stargate open with the watery sploosh effect.

Of course, it does not look exactly as the fiberglass prop, just
close enough.


> How about putting it within the pyramid or in the military building on
> Earth?  How about trying to make the pyramid spacecraft and making an
> animation of it blowing up?

Hm. I got some good columns of egyptian style. Next weekend ?


> Maybe #undef could be used to make the
> pyramid object go out of existence.

hm. And cause a parse error ?


Best,

    S.

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Steven Pigeon                     Ph. D. Student.
University of Montreal.
pig### [at] iroumontrealca           Topic: data compression
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