I was trawling through the web as I usually do, and I came across this picture, from Alien and I fell in love with it for perhaps irrational reasons:
What are these symbols? These are meant to be a starship's legend and key, for, and I quote: "all commercial trans-stellar and heavy element transport craft. April 2078." as designed by Rob Cobb. You can see his colour keys down below.
If you can't read it in the picture:
It's intended to be a handy guide to what to expect when you walk around on a ship, or look at a door to know what's behind it, or to tell you where the coffee is.
(very important stuff here, folks. Do you know where the coffee is on your ship?)
Just now, I found a vectorised version of it.
So, with this in mind, does SARP have anything like this that can be universally understood by all? Are warnings printed in the shipwright's native language and people who don't speak the language expected to translate it on the fly?
The topic fascinates me because this is all about communicating clear information quickly, and that's what I enjoyed doing when I did games design. Like, I wonder what this symbol looks like in Yamatai?
(It's supposed to have a white background)
We all know what it means just by looking at it, which is the beauty of images, but would Yamatai do things differently? Would the Nepleslians even have them? Would the Lorath use a different set of glyphs altogether?
Discuss.
EDIT:
For more on Alien's visual design, look here: http://typesetinthefuture.com/alien/
What are these symbols? These are meant to be a starship's legend and key, for, and I quote: "all commercial trans-stellar and heavy element transport craft. April 2078." as designed by Rob Cobb. You can see his colour keys down below.
If you can't read it in the picture:
Red: Viable, sound, alive, alertness.
White/Grey: Life supporting condition, pressure, temperature.
Black: Vacuum, death, hazard.
Yellow/Orange: Harmful active process. Molecular (heat), atomic, chemical.
Blue: Lowered thermal condition.
Green: Non-human biological substance/process (Not used in standard)
It's intended to be a handy guide to what to expect when you walk around on a ship, or look at a door to know what's behind it, or to tell you where the coffee is.
(very important stuff here, folks. Do you know where the coffee is on your ship?)
Just now, I found a vectorised version of it.
So, with this in mind, does SARP have anything like this that can be universally understood by all? Are warnings printed in the shipwright's native language and people who don't speak the language expected to translate it on the fly?
The topic fascinates me because this is all about communicating clear information quickly, and that's what I enjoyed doing when I did games design. Like, I wonder what this symbol looks like in Yamatai?
(It's supposed to have a white background)
We all know what it means just by looking at it, which is the beauty of images, but would Yamatai do things differently? Would the Nepleslians even have them? Would the Lorath use a different set of glyphs altogether?
Discuss.
EDIT:
For more on Alien's visual design, look here: http://typesetinthefuture.com/alien/
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