Thomas de Groot spake:

> 
> "Stefan Viljoen polard.com>" <spamnot@<removethis> schreef in bericht
> news:42ef0e62@news.povray.org...
>> ...... So I decided to model this entity's office. I
>> wanted to aim for a conventional type of still-life scene, but with just
>> that bit of "wrongness" that it doesn't quite click, but something keeps
>> bothering you.

> Ah! This is an interesting concept: Trying to imagine an alien
> environment. You shall have to become an alien yourself in order to
> understand
> its/his/her psychology.  :-)
> I think the windows look too earthy, although there may be convergence
> (there certainly should be, but in unexpected ways). Also the furniture
> will be adapted to its/his/her morphology (bipedal?). Have you read
> 'Gateway' and 'Beyond the blue event horizon', by Frederik Pohl? There are

I've heard a lot about the novels but have never gotten around to reading
one of them. Played an abandonware computer game a while ago that was
themed to be a Gateway (?) game. Weir stuff.

> some interesting speculations there about alien morphology deduced from
> furniture (that is shown to be wrong at the end of the books).

Thanks Thomas this is a good idea. Yeah, so far the scene may be a bit too
ordinary, having a weirdly shaped stool or something for the entity to sit
in would really work nice.

Kind regards,
-- 
Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician / Programmer
Polar Design Solutions

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