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The Great Greeble Assimilation was a very important milestone for the Borg.
i like the star trek borg cube texture instead personally
This is nurnies erasure.
Is there a special name for electronic doodads in sci-fi? Like the control panels in the Millennium Falcon or Luthen’s radio switchboard in Andor. Shoot, Mother’s room in Alien is another example. It’s like the electronic version of greebles on a starship model. Do they have a special name as well?
So in the future, have they also solved the problem of “dust”? Those poor cleaners…
No dust in space because vacuum.
🤔
Back in the days where they used miniatures to do spaceships sometimes the vfx dept. would take model kits and glue the entire plastic sheet, sprues and all, to the miniature. You know, like this.
Huh. I thought it was the invisible things that only cats can see that makes them kinda crazy.
“kinda”
it is. this is just word theft. ;p
Forgiveness for my pedantry, but pretty sure a greeble (or greeblie) is the individual plastic details that they would glue on to create the texture, not the texture itself.
You wouldn’t say a texture is “greeble”.
Edit - and if you’re talking 3d modeling, greebling is done during sculpting, it’s not a texturing step.
To be pedantic in return - in 3D modeling you absolutely can add greebling as a bump map or tessellation texture.
It seems to use a similar naming convention as stucco, where the thing that is applied shares the name with the resulting texfure.
It’s texture as in surface quality, not the meaning used in computer rendering.
Blender modeler here. We often do grebble in geometry nodes. Not sculpting
You could also theoretically do it in the texturing step with a displacement modifier using the new(er) dynamic scaling.
Oh yeah. Forgot it was stabilised
I get where you’re coming from but texture in layman term is (microscopic) characteristic of the surface. You wouldn’t appreciate crisp 16bit RGBA pixels in your mouth when you bite an apple.
In the late 1990s I wrote an Alias|Wavefront plugin called greeble that built a bump field + height field from texture so artists could paint greebles on by hand, so whether or not that’s the proper way to do it, it’s been a texture thing for a long time.
And here I was calling it the Borg
They’re half the reason people buy Nothing phones.
You will be assimilated. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile.
Greebles! An important part of making miniature models, here’s a great video with examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otvDWcDVeac
