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Bram Lambrecht wrote in message ...
> I've built a recreational space craft:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=3434
> I envision it sort of as a sailplane for outer space...powered by solar • wind or
> solar power. Does anyone have a good idea for a name for the model?
Heh, as soon as I saw you picture I was reminded of the name "Sunjammer".
You see on Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells 2" album there's a track called
"Sunjammer". I always thought it would be a good name for, of all things, a
soler-powered spaceship! So whenever I listen to that track, I'm always
reminded of a solar-powered spacecraft zipping along.
When I saw your picture, it was only natural for me to instantly think of
that name. I couldn't name it anything else, but of course it's your model
so you can call it what you like, and I'll just sit here and be peeved ;-)
> For all you artists out there, I'd also like a critique on the composition.
> Any suggestions?
Build it for real and see how strong the struts - er, ahem! Oh, you mean the
rendering.
Well, I think that having a (bright but not too glaring) yellow sun in a
corner of the picture would be highly appropriate, along with a subtle lens
flare effect (if povray doesn't do lens flares you could always Photoshop
one in... right?).
Cheers,
Paul
LUGNET member 164
http://www.geocities.com/doctorshnub/
P.S. Yeah, I know, listening to Mike Oldfield (particularly the TB2 album)
is overly geeky. What the hey, I like it.
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| (...) I'll need to dig out my Oldfield CDs this evening. The first Tubular Bells and "To France" are some of my favorites. I still like to play "To France" every once in a while when I get the urge to tickle the ivories. Listen well, Andreas Stabno (...) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Here's what I did: in MS-DOS, in the LGEO directory, I typed dir *.inc > lgeo.txt I opened the text file in Excel to grab the column of available part files. I reopened the text file and separated "lg_", the part #, and ".inc" into three (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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