"Gail Shaw" <initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote:
> I like. Is the grid an image map?

Well, I thought it was, but closer inspection of Trevor Quayle's CGSphere
template reveals it to be a UV-mapped pigment map. Which is nice, 'cos
that's much easier to modify than an image map. The CGSphere.com zip file
still contains an unused 'grid.tga' though, which confused me.

> For some reason, I've always imagined it shiny.
Well, I think it was given a sort of sheen in the movies so people would
know what they were looking at. One of their very few unrealisms, actually
- I think 2001 and 2010 must be unique in movie SF to convincingly convey
the total, lonely silence of space. The only sound effects are engines
roaring, which you'd hear through your spacecraft superstructure anyway,
and the claustrophobic gasping of panicky American NASA engineers as they
space-walk with their brown trousers on.

Bill

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