quote:Originally posted by Reverend: The jet mesh itself looks great...but I don't think it's possible to make this concept look aesthetically coherent. It puts me in mind of a random email I got some years back from some trekkie who'd done his car up to look like a shuttlecraft. Though it wasn't a particularly nice motor to start with, it still wasn't a pleasant sight.
There's a minivan that is often at sc-fi cons that dressed up as a TNG shuttle.
I'm geek anough to notice that they used both TNG and pennants though.
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Sounds like the same Charlie. Though I suppose it's possible there are two characters out there willing to be seen in public in a dozy-pratmobile.
What got me was why randomly email pictures of the god awful thing so some stranger on the internet. More specifically, why me?
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You're king of the geeks, he clearly recognised your greatness. Plus you made a lot of Trek graphics in the past, you're his inspiration.
The guy is a psychiatrist or psychologist or something who has covered his Toyota Prius in Trek signage. He has recently had the seats re-covered with a Trek logo on them (quite nice looking actually) and added 'phaser emitters' to the wing mirrors. He posts regularly on the TrekBBS and is now showing his car at custom car shows around the US. He's using it to promote electric and hybrid tech to rednecks/nascar fans, many of whom think that sort of stuff is science fiction.
We've all pulled him up for being something of a loony, but he's happy in his world and loving the attention. He claims that the car can be returned to stock in a day by removing the stickers, etc so he's not devalued his car. He wins oddball awards at car shows and walks around dressed in a Trek uniform with Vulcan ears on, so I dont know if he can be fixed quite so quickly.
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When I say 20 minutes, it took 20 mins to set up the animation. Actual rendering time was around 10 hours, so I do this sort of throwaway stuff overnight.
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