Supermassive Black Hole A*

Scanlines are forever

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:21:13 PST

I threw this thingy together today; it might end up as a sort of filler page on another webcomic:

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On Friday I was thinking that I might put a large version of daily 16 up in the A* "gallery" viewer, but you know, with the new larger A* strip size, I don't know how much point there would be in putting up double-sized versions that probably wouldn't fit on most peoples' screens anyway. So I settled for posting the comic on deviantART, and while I was doing that, I found that deviantART's artist comment field didn't like the ampersand in my comic URLs. Silly deviantART! So I made a little script that will take a short version of an A* comic URL and redirect to the full address, like so; the long number at the end is just the number of the chapter (0008) and the number of the strip (0016). How exciting!

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Ed Harrington was kind enough to add a Princess and the Giant link to the links page of his fine Nothing Happened Today comic, which you should check out, particularly if you enjoy reading meticulously drawn humorous non-adventures of semi-cerebral drunkards--and who doesn't, really?

Speaking of the Princess, here's a clickable link/bookmark/ad thingy that leads to her latest strip:

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Iconageddon Pt. Deux

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:32:43 PST

Hm, that second one came out all right, maybe I'll put a full (double) size version in the gallery on Monday.

Some time in the not-so-wee hours last night I realized my iconography was only halfway done--still had to update outdated representations of A* and my other comics on my various mirror sites, which tend to have their own custom icon sizes. So here's another slew:

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Episode 7 banner overload

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:27:26 PST

Now I'm thinking that technically if you poked your finger through a holographic screen it would just block out the hologram in rays opposite from the directions the projection was coming from, but you know, that probably wouldn't look as cool. Anyway, this is probably something much more sophisticated, like...um...a magnetically controlled plasma field of radiant gas. Yeah! Also I gots ta keep ripping off Matrix effects, you know. :P

Banner dump! Time to update my various ad campaigns, so I made myself some "leaderboard-size" banners with chapter 7 art; you might have seen the first one a month or so ago, the others I whipped up tonight. Feel free to use these yourself for linking or whatever; they will reside on the icons page until I get tired of them!

Help a brother out and let me know if you think any of these are particularly good or bad. :D I have a definite favorite and a mostly definite least favorite.

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Floating tools

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:02:25 PST

Stayed away from the maths and finally got a decent number of pages done! Just more proof that math is evil.

I think floating screwdriver is my new favorite character.

We'll have to wait until tomorrow for Vero to complete his latest thought (he is slow of mind) but MAYBE YOU CAN FIGURE IT OUT?? :o

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How to be really heavy

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:57:55 PST

Bah, still just two today! Got too caught up in black hole math, initially trying to show how ridiculously powerful the fantasy "mass effect" technology in "Mass Effect 2" would have had to have been to keep the crew at their normal weight as close as they appeared to get to a certain notorious black hole: it would've had to have been able to nullify 650 g-forces, as it turns out! And then I went on to figure silly things like how far away from A* you could be to be getting the equivalent of Earth surface gravity from it (answer: a distance equivalent to Pluto's furthest distance from the Sun!), or how fast you'd have to be going to have a stable orbit around A* at a distance just above that of Mars' furthest orbit from the Sun (answer: 15% light speed!). So if you want to see a lot of nutty calculations like that about black holes, they're in this A* forum post!

Hopefully less math, more drawing tomorrow. Although having figured out some of this stuff will help me for hm episode 8 or 9, in a way.

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