On Sun, 16 May 2010 21:06:22 +0200, TC get-enough-spam-already-2498.com>  
<do-not-reply@i-do> wrote:

> I doubt the plate looks aged at all. It probably is still as shiny as it  
> was
> when the spacecraft was launched.
>
> No oxygen in space to corrode it (and gold does not corrode easily,  
> anyway),
> no dust to grind it down. At the velocities involved even a small speck
> would either make a neat hole or destroy the whole spacecraft.
>
>
>
Hmmm...

Maybe the corrosion is due to crashing onto their planet?

-Nekar Xenos-

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Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote:

> Putting aside the controversy about if it should be weathered or not, I
> think the corrosion looks good, only perhaps a bit exaggerated in height 

thanks, I consider that high praise coming from you ;)

I will try scaling it down.

Although it wasn't intended to be corrosion in the chemical
sense, more accumulated mechanical micro-impacts, hence the
longish scratches. I think the borders are too strongly
affected: I cranked the function way up near the borders so
it would go all the way to the bottom and give jagged edges
in x-z plane instead of the actual straight hf boundaries.

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