Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 4:49 PM
Ignatz,
My wife informs me that we may have a pair of 3D glasses hanging around somewhere. If so, they'll be in my office, which we're slowly getting organized. Hopefully, they'll turn up.
You mentioned logos and signs in a previous email. Some science fiction imagery I've seen shows warning stickers plastered all over the place; by the airlocks, the door handles, and all sorts of things. If they were building our ship, for instance, they might put yellow and black hazard striping around the locking pin.
Personally, I think there's some merit in all that, but only to a point: modern freight ships, for example, don't have the amount of signage we’re talking about here, yet there are more ways to get hurt on one of those vessels than there are ways to be safe. I imagine the idea there is that shipboard dangers are mitigated by experience and training, and no one without training is supposed to be on board.
So, maybe there'd be little operation or safety signs on the exterior airlocks, but maybe they'd use some sort of universal symbology, rather than written words, so that they can be safely operated by people who speak different languages.
Also, as you've done the vast majority of work on this, I think it's only right that you name it. Anything you want is cool with me. And it doesn't even need to be in English if you don't want it to be. (Or Ingliss, for that matter!) The first ship of this model would have been called "Tottenberg", but this isn't that one. This one has whatever name you like.
-David
Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 5:05 PM
David,
Wow! I'm allowed to christen this ship and name it? First a quickie crash course in Ingliss and right after that I'll send out for a bottle of 25-year old graino to break across the bow.
In the meantime, I'll peak your interest with yet two more 3D stereo renders.
Cheers,
- Ignatz
