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Posted by Zeugma (Member # 6636) on :

Why not try a business card?? [Big Grin]

http://www.thebogs.com/archives/card3.jpg

If this is a good design, I'll incorporate these colors and the general feel of this card into my current, still-kerploded-in-winIE website.

So what do you think?

Yes, you!

[Wink]

Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :

Nice light bulb.

Posted by Zeugma (Member # 6636) on :

Yeah? Mark wasn't a fan of all the reflections in the glass.

Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :

shiny. I like.

Posted by AvidReader (Member # 6007) on :

Huh. That was the part I liked about it.

Posted by Zeugma (Member # 6636) on :

Good, I'm not going crazy, then. [Smile]

Well, not in that way, anyhow. [Wink]

Posted by Fitz (Member # 4803) on :

Hey, I just called that number and some guy named Dave answered, and claimed he didn't know anyone named Aja. I'll be going elsewhere for my 3D animation needs because of this!

Posted by Zeugma (Member # 6636) on :

Darn, it is SO hard finding a good secretary these days....

Posted by Allegra (Member # 6773) on :

I really like the lightbulb on the right of the card. Without changing anything the card is nice but i would suggest: moving the text over farther to the left and eliminating the colored bulb. I don't think the bulb on the right is bad, I just like the simplicity of having one bulb. If you keep both i would get rid of the greyness around the colored bulb, and I would change the color of the base of the bulb.

Posted by Allegra (Member # 6773) on :

For clarification: I realize the need for the bulb to glow, but I just don't think it should be that color grey.

Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :

You are missing the point, Allegra. The righthand bulb is the basic CGI framework, while the lefthand bulb is the completed CGI drawing.

Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :

Once upon a time, instead of integrated chips, there existed vacuum tubes (in English, valves) somewhat like smaller versions of the cathode ray tube behind the screen of the now oldfashioned and clunky computer monitors and television.

Now in order for these tubes/valves to function, they had to operate at high temperatures. Unfortunately, such high temperatures also meant that the working elements would burn in air.
And undesirably, factory production of these tubes/valves left a residual amount of air within the glass casing. That being the case, a sacrificial element composed of a metal which vaporized at a lower temperature than the working elements was also wired into the tube/valve to eliminate the residual air in the tube by burning/combining with that internal air, producing a purer vacuum which wouldn't destroy the working elements.

And since the glass -- cooled by conduction and convection contact with the external air -- was cooler than the elements, the burnt metal oxide deposited on the glass along with a small amount of recondensed metal from the sacrificial element.
Hence the standard mirror grey coloring of working vacuum tubes.

Incandescent lightbulbs (of the type pictured) work essentially the same way. If you take a look at a new clear incandescent lightbulb and compare it to a used clear incandescent lightbulb, you will notice that the glass of the used bulb is grayer than the new bulb. You will also notice that the old bulb appears to reflect the exterior more than the new bulb.
This is because even though modern factory production produces a purer vacuum in the bulb, the lighting element is run at a higher temperature. The higher the temperature, the more efficiently the element produces light from electricity, and the purer the white of the light's color.

But running the lighting element at a higher temperature, also means running that element (the wire that is seen producing light) at a temperature closer to the melting point. Temperature is a statistical measurement, an average of the kinetic energy of the individual particles: some particles have above the average kinetic energy, and some particles have below the average kinetic energy. So the closer the temperature is to melting point -- ie where the atoms and nanoscale-groupings begin dissocciating themselves from each other -- the more individual atoms and nanoscale groupings are above "melting temperature" kinetic energy. And some of those are above sputtering and vaporization energies.
The portion which is above sputtering and vaporization energies cools when it contacts the glass and forms a permanent "gray mirror"ing deposition.

So the picture of the lighting element and the mirroring is realistic in a sense. It's just that if you are staring at a lit bulb, the white light swamps out your vision so that exterior light being reflected off the bulb isn't seen
Which is one of the main points of this particular CGI drawing: showing how the lightbulb looks when the lighting element is ON and how the lightbulb looks when it is OFF, simultaneously.

[ December 22, 2004, 05:32 PM: Message edited by: aspectre ]

Posted by Zeugma (Member # 6636) on :

All right! I only did it because I thought it looked cooler than just a washed-out bulb, but now I'm totally going to go with a whole cathode-ray explanation. [Big Grin]

Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :

Will it print well without foil or embossing? Are you planning to print the card in color?

[ December 22, 2004, 05:51 PM: Message edited by: advice for robots ]

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

That's odd. I used to know someone else with that exact same phone number.

Posted by Zeugma (Member # 6636) on :

I have no idea, afr... I don't have much experience with business cards. I was just going to take it to kinkos and see how they did. And yes, I'm going to print them in color.