Voyager's atrometrics displays

[Robert]

Here's a simple displays seen in voyager's astrometrics. I'll use this as a template for my duckblind LCARS. I hope you guys enjoy.

[deif]

great work, explorer
but why is he background of ther lcars monitor in a dark grey and not black like the rest?

[Robert]

Thanks deif.



but why is he background of ther lcars monitor in a dark grey and not black like the rest?


The reason is pretty simple. In Star Trek, there are two kinds of LCARS. Animated and Static.

Animated LCARS are the most popular ones. See "stellar cartography map 0133" in my last post.
Theses animated LCARS were usually small TV's or CRT monitors put behind the plexiglass. They were also the only ones that could be changed throughout a scene. For exemple, when the captain calls "red alert". The monitors changed into a red-alert version of themselves. The other LCARS on screens couldn't. That why I call them "static LCARS".

Static LCARS are also known as the keyboards. See the bottom graphic in my last post.
Theses graphics were ususally printed on. They had no animations except basic flickering lights. They wouldn't changed for red-alert mode, and used a slightly different color scheme. Obviously because the colors from the monitor didn't appear the same on the printed graphics.

So why the dark grey on the animated LCARS?
Its basically to differenciate the two styles of LCARS. We all know that are old TVs don't show black as black but more as a dark grey. So with that in mind. I make my animated LCARS in a dark grey background.

"please read this part"
Now this explanation of LCARS is merely my interpretation. Its not based on facts or by anyone who worked on Star Trek. I am very much aware of the exceptions seen in many episodes and especially movies. I also know that the major reason for printed LCARS is budget. I do not consider myself an expert in LCARS, I just love making them* ;D. I'm sure you can find other sites with far better explanation and probably more canon. This site is about sharing ideas, art, etc, and having fun while we're at it.

Thank you for your understanding.

[deif]

thanx, explorer, for this clear and unterstandable explanation.
i'm completly with you - i would vote for accuracy, but not for the price of artiistic freedom. sometimes i feel, that canon can become legalistic, especially in some debattes here or there.
i like to do lcars graphics for fun and also to stir up others to become creative themselve. that's excactly what happend myself: i was a lurker for years and admired the lcars stuff at different places. 2006 i started my first attempts to do my own graphics - and that's where we are today! so i hope to see much more artists here as well...

[Robert]

Here's two new simple "LCARS" from astrometrics.
They actually just use NASA images from nebulas. But what the hell it wouldn't be Astrometrics without them. The bottom part of the graphic is just copy paste from my first post.

The first is based on this screencap:
http://voy.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/4x25/one_496.jpg

The second one is from this scene:
http://voy.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/ ... es_236.JPG (http://voy.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/6x18/Ashes_to_Ashes_236.JPG)

I sure hope you will enjoy.

[Robert]

Here's another one.

[Robert]

And another* ;D

[deif]

very nice, explorer

the first pic shows the famous pillars of creation in the eagle nebula, m16

the second pic shows the helix nebula, ngc 7293

the third pic shows the cat'seye nebula, ngc 6543

and the fourth pic shows the keyhole nebula in eta carina, ngc 3324

all pics where taken by the famous hubble telescope....


just for information....

[Robert]

Thanks Deif, I guess I should have mention this.

Here another two.

First of all: Saturn's Ring taken by the Voyager 2 probe.

The second: The m2-9 Nebula taken by the Hubble Space Telescope

P.S. All theses images were seen in Voyagers astrometrics at one time or another.

Enjoy!

[Adge]

Nicely put together indeed.* They would sit proud on any wall. :)

[Kmpr´rak]

Nice compositions!* ;D