*BEEP* *BEEP*
Science Officer: "Sir, my readings indicate that this substance is 30% tritatium oxide, 44% trilithium sulphonasotate and the rest is an unknown biological compound based on haemoglobin dimer clusters."
*BEEP* *BEEP*
Science Officer: "Further readings indicate that it has been here for 8 days at a rate of decomposition of 2.98 kiloquans per hour."
Captain: "You can tell that from some flashing lights a beep?"
We've all seen them. From the humble tricorder to the Psi Scan Model 345, the handheld scanner is the ultimate Little Dumb Object. From merely pointing it at something and reading the little bars and dots, you can tell what anything is, what killed it, what it was doing five minutes ago and probably information that even a Wikipedia "in popular culture" section wouldn't bother with. In the real world, you need five people and about 2 weeks with 10 different machines to figure out what something is, but the Scifi Scanner can do it in mere milliseconds, and without touching it.
The contest is to design a handheld scifi scanner.
Regarding the Design:
1) The device must be handheld or at the very least man-portable. You don't have to show the hands or the user, we're just interested in the device itself.
2) The design must be original and your own work. You don't have to limit yourself to doing something that would fit in an existing TV show.
3) It can be in any program you like, 2D or 3D art. Handmade sketch or origami if you like (I'd certainly be interested to see if anyone takes up this oppotunity to do something outside the realms of 3D).
Regarding Posting:
4) No Work-in-progress (WIP) shots to be posted. Although you can submit a newer version if you have tweaked it since your last post, all pictures posted must be intended to be final.
5) Entries must be submitted into this thread by the end 31 August 2008 (due to potential time zone problems, this will be slightly elastic, I won't outright reject anything submitted while my clock says 1st September). That's just over three weeks from now.
6) Only one image per person to be submitted, your BCC username must be printed on them clearly (the only restrictions on images are the usual ones applied to all uploaded images to the forum).
Regarding Voting:
7) Two threads will be opened after the closing date featuring all submitted images (which may be resized for ease of viewing). Polls will be included for anyone to vote on. One will be for DESIGN (i.e., originality, coolness etc.), the other will be for QUALITY (i.e., rendering, modelling quality, presentation etc.).
8) The voting threads will stay open for a week while the polls are counted, the winners will then be announced.
9) For paperwork purposes, the organisers of the contest will be myself and executioner_de.
Good hunting. If this is as sucessful as the lightsaber contest, we'll see about doing a third in the very near future. Feel free to discuss the contest in this thread.
Topic: Contest 2: The Sci-Fi Scanner (Read 1561 times)
