"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> "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.
>

They told me they wanted to keep it in for consistency even though it wasn't
used.

> > 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

What?!?! You mean space isn't filled with Aerosmith tunes cranked up to 11?

-tgq

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