From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 9 11:05:43 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA18895 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 11:05:43 -0800 Received: from isl.cf.ac.uk (isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk [131.251.22.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA18886; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 11:05:27 -0800 Received: (from paul@localhost) by isl.cf.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id TAA04084; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 19:04:37 GMT From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199503091904.TAA04084@isl.cf.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Another small nitpick [was Re: Revised version of "Giant Step" GIF] To: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 19:04:37 +0000 (GMT) Cc: phk@ref.tfs.com, taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Julian Elischer" at Mar 8, 95 12:36:08 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 915 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Julian Elischer who said > of course.. > study the original moon shot.... > it has the following points.. > > ladder not as visible, a big part of the shot is the 'pad' of the > lander.. > there is only one footprint.. the rest are out of shot.. remember, > you take LONG steps on the moon. > the angle of the shot is from about 60 degrees from the horizontal > (30 from vertical), so the footprint needs to be somehow changed to > reflect this perspective.. I know this is based on a real photo but lets not get too pedantic, lets just get something that looks good to us? I'm still in favour of flipping the whole thing so it's the right way up :-) -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@CARDIFF.AC.UK