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I love how this power plant control room also features a wall schematic that echoes ST TOS! (more in post)
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JohnnyEnzyme piefed.social JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
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Of course, it's almost invariably the opposite. 😄
I.e., ST TOS stole the idea and used it in the engineering room, most commonly.

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Many more examples of these control rooms here:
https://kottke.org/26/10/so-many-amazing-control-rooms

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hamsamrich lemmy.world hamsamrich@lemmy.world
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What is cassette futurism? Also, what does ST TOS mean?

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Feidry sh.itjust.works Feidry@sh.itjust.works
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What is cassette futurism? Also, what does ST TOS mean?

Cassette futurism is that retro beige plastic look. Severance is very cassette futurism, as a TV show example.

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ianhclark510 lemmy.blahaj.zone ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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What is cassette futurism? Also, what does ST TOS mean?

Mood!

And Star Trek: The Original Series

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hamsamrich lemmy.world hamsamrich@lemmy.world
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Cassette futurism is that retro beige plastic look. Severance is very cassette futurism, as a TV show example.

Oh, I love that style!
What about ST TOS

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FartMaster69 lemmy.dbzer0.com FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Oh, I love that style! What about ST TOS

Star Trek The Original Series

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nocturne slrpnk.net nocturne@slrpnk.net
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Star Trek The Original Series

Those Old Scientists

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otacon239 lemmy.world otacon239@lemmy.world
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Looks like I found inspiration for my next art project.

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JohnnyEnzyme piefed.social JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
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Looks like I found inspiration for my next art project.

Count me curious.

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otacon239 lemmy.world otacon239@lemmy.world
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Count me curious.

I’ve been wanting to get back into Blender modeling and specifically something blocky like this but have been waiting to find the right thing that strikes me. I’ve been doing shading and compositing experiments with it for years, but I suck at the actual modeling side.

Once I have that put together, I plan on making a music video with the set for my album.

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JohnnyEnzyme piefed.social JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
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I’ve been wanting to get back into Blender modeling and specifically something blocky like this but have been waiting to find the right thing that strikes me. I’ve been doing shading and compositing experiments with it for years, but I suck at the actual modeling side. Once I have that put together, I plan on making a music video with the set for my album.

I mean, your prior work sounds rather fascinating.

Hope it all works out!

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otacon239 lemmy.world otacon239@lemmy.world
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I mean, your prior work sounds rather fascinating. Hope it all works out!

Here’s one of my previous experiments using a model exported from Beam.NG. It’s on transparency, so if you’re on a light background, you won’t see the checkerboard floor.

Bonus edit: one of the very first renders I ever did in 2010

I guess I like checkerboards

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brem lemmy.world brem@lemmy.world
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Cassette futurism is that retro beige plastic look. Severance is very cassette futurism, as a TV show example.

Your Outtie enjoys sci-fi television and once smiled while watching lights blink.

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brem lemmy.world brem@lemmy.world
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Those Old Scientists

The Obvious Selection

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Hamartiogonic sopuli.xyz Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
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Even though that diagram seems complicated, it really isn’t. If you ever get the chance to play around with a modern automation software in an actual power plant or a factory, you’ll be overwhelmed. The number of tanks, pipes, pumps, valves, flow meters, level indicators, pressure gauges, temperature sensors etc. is absolutely enormous. What you see on the wall would be just a high level overview. Often you would need to drill one or two levels deeper to find what you’re really looking for.

Although, old industrial facilities were very simple by modern standards, so maybe that diagram really did have everything.

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JohnnyEnzyme piefed.social JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
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Even though that diagram seems complicated, it really isn’t. If you ever get the chance to play around with a modern automation software in an actual power plant or a factory, you’ll be overwhelmed. The number of tanks, pipes, pumps, valves, flow meters, level indicators, pressure gauges, temperature sensors etc. is absolutely enormous. What you see on the wall would be just a high level overvi...

I'll make you a deal-- I feel natural when it comes to the arts, philosophy, writing, history, logic puzzles, dancing, singing, and so forth, but try as I might, I've BARELY been able to learn electrical diagrams and flow diagrams across my life, so let me leave that expertise to you? 😅

(and don't we all kinda form silly team-ups like that amongst our friends & family? each with our silly strengths and weaknesses, in order to form a 'whole?')

I hope you liked the other pics in link... to me they were equally boss!

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vext01 feddit.uk vext01@feddit.uk
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Mood! And Star Trek: The Original Series

That explains why I can't see anything to do with Atari ST TOS.

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Hamartiogonic sopuli.xyz Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
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I'll make you a deal-- I feel natural when it comes to the arts, philosophy, writing, history, logic puzzles, dancing, singing, and so forth, but try as I might, I've BARELY been able to learn electrical diagrams and flow diagrams across my life, so let me leave that expertise to you? 😅 (and don't we all kinda form silly team-ups like that amongst our friends & family? each with our silly s...

Thanks, I really enjoyed the other pictures too. Modern control rooms are just a bunch of displays and keyboards in a row. The old ones were all custom made, which gave them plenty of character.

Technical diagrams can be hard to read, and they probably aren’t going to get any simpler in the future as we keep on adding more layers of complexity to every factory and plant. Don’t know about electrical diagrams though, since I haven’t needed those very often.

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JohnnyEnzyme piefed.social JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
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Thanks, I really enjoyed the other pictures too. Modern control rooms are just a bunch of displays and keyboards in a row. The old ones were all custom made, which gave them plenty of character. Technical diagrams can be hard to read, and they probably aren’t going to get any simpler in the future as we keep on adding more layers of complexity to every factory and plant. Don’t know about electr...

I remember in the wake of my trying to understand circuit boards that I came across one that looked different. Upon closer inspection, it was actually multiple circuit boards all packed together, wafer-thin. Machine / robot-produced of course. That was in the 90's, I think. I don't know how someone might possibly un-encrypt / understand the exact set of those circuit planes without... some sort of special tools, I imagine.

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krigo666 lemmy.world krigo666@lemmy.world
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Star Trek The Original Series

I was wondering, the Atari ST computer's operating system is called TOS...
Atari TOS - Wikipedia

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