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Comments and News - Tuesday, September 6, 2005 The really BRIGHT bar of green in the upper left image is the Wall. The box thing, which I DID put into an earlier version of last Thursday's page, is also an EM feild generator. The thing that generates the Wall is larger, but more spread out. For a wall the size of this particular one (about three square miles) there are about twenty EM feild generators. The box Lucy has been lugging around with her is about one fourth the size--easier to transport--and it generates a smaller, but more focused feild that puts the Wall at a disadvantage. The Wall generator has to create a feild on a wide band of select frequencies and has to filter every single bio-electric intteruption and calculate several factors to decide whether or not it wants to alert on that particular intrusion. The Box generates a four-foot wide, by X high feild set to the exact opposite of the Wall feild, at about five times the intencity of this particular Wall. Some Wall programmers take things like Lucy's box into account and have the Wall switch frequences often. They haven't done that here.
Rather careless of them, isn't it? :)
Electromagnetic vison is green. Why? Because it looks cool. Practical selling point. People expect electronic filters, cheap holographs and electromagnetic visiuals to be green, as lasers and heat vision are expected to be red and UV vison is expected to be some form of blue. Technically, the visuals are a computer generated image and could therefor be any color the viewer wants it to be, but companies discovered that green Holographs and EM readers, red Lasers and IR readers and blue UV readers all sell better than readers in any other color. Changing color is a built in feature that isn't used much, sort of like altering your keyboard from QWERTY to Dvorak type layout. Can you? Yes. Did you know about it before you read this? Probably not.
Interestingly, one of the options on some EM, IR and UV readers is to have "real color" readouts, meaing the computer interpretes the images being seen and translates it into the colors that an object of X properties can have. It doesn't work very well; images generated that way look like really bad LSD. People who use it are considered hopeless geeks.
News: Um, not much. :)
My hurricane-effected family members are coping. They're allowing people back into N.O. for limited amounts of time today, and just reading the rules gives me the creepies all over again. N.O. effected guys: My heart and prayers are going out to you.
I'm participating in BLC's Webcomic Telethon for Hurricane Kat victems. Addy is http://www.webcomictelethon.com./ . Check it out, push it, and if you can't do anything else and you've got a webcomic, send in art and tell your fans to go see it.
Well...that's all for now folks. Tuesday: Weird Things Start to Happen.
- Chelsea Gaither
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