Comments on: p.190 (Chapter Seven)

By: Pepper

Pepper — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 05:51:10 +0000

Actually, I prefer the solid version. Wouldn’t a projection that looks solid suggest an even more advanced state of technology? Plus, that way, whatever he is working on can’t be seen by the people sitting around him.

By: Glennnn

Glennnn — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:06:14 +0000

This is what I call going to great lengths to avoid the extra Friday update !
We can wait until next month for that. Relax and concentrate on your good health. Are you getting enough chicken soup?
In the meantime, please pay no attention to those nice people in yellow suits putting up the quarantine barriers outside your house.

By: Insectoid

Insectoid — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 07:19:38 +0000

Poor Tara! Get well soon!!

By: Quieteyes

Quieteyes — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 03:43:20 +0000

Hope you feel better. Being sick is no fun.

By: Quieteyes

Quieteyes — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 02:20:46 +0000

Thanks for all the links: they really helped a lot (I had forgotten about Fusella’s screen).

The “special effect” for Fusella’s screen worked quite well. It was in mid-air and looked like a projection rather than something solid. Speaking of which, if the screens are projections, then why does he have to shrink them? Just turn the projection off.

Yes! Tony Stark’s workstation is exactly the kind of thing I was thinking of. Yeah, that would be very cool.

By: reynard61

reynard61 — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 03:35:37 +0000

Also, you can open a refrigerator door. My landlord’s cat can hear that a block away. (Or so it seems at times…)

By: HardWearJunkie

HardWearJunkie — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:22:58 +0000

One would think a starship CAPTAIN would have better things to do than look for someone’s cat. Then again, when an android possesses a cat he gets his engineering best friend with the funky glasses to get said cat from under a bed the android NEVER requires.

If you want it to be just like Stark’s display, you could “semi-draw” the background through it, giving the illusion of transparency. As it stands, it looks very solid in the picture. Or you could make it look like he’s adjusting his keyboard to a more comfortable position.

By: Vulpis

Vulpis — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:53:26 +0000

Nononono. Can-opener. Or discover that someone is allergic to cats. Or lay a freshly-cleaned clothing item of a color that the cat’s fur completely clashes with on a bed. Sure-fire cat-lures.

By: Insectoid

Insectoid — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:08:40 +0000

LOL, and I was just reading AMoP last night for fun… it all makes sense now!

By: Tara

Tara — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:17:25 +0000

You’re right, they don’t line up as well as they ought.

The screens, both of them, are supposed to be projections (which is a bit of a callback to something Fusella used a long time ago). What I don’t show– it happens between panels– is Darvin similarly shrinking down the second screen. What he’s folding in half is more or less just the keyboard.

An interactive 3-D image (the workstation Tony Stark used in Iron Man springs to mind) would be pretty spiff, though, wouldn’t it?