[openbeos] Re: BeOS style icons on primetime tv
- From: "Dennis d'Entremont" <dennis.dentremont@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:37:04 -0300
On 10/24/07, Michael S <mikesum32@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I like computers, and like most geeks I like sci-fi. So I was watching
> Quantum Leap 2, nay, Journeyman on NBC and noticed some familiar
> icons. I thought to myself "those look like BeOS icons." So I made a
> screenshot to see if I could clear up the picture. A little white
> balancing later I had a better image.
>
> http://img3.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/1571ae8e29.png
>
> So they could be BeOS, but they could also be any number of BeOS
> look alikes or even the Haiku icons.
>
> Then an idea struck me to go look at the old Haiku icon voting page to
> compare the icons in the screenshot to the voting icons.
>
> http://bug-no.petterhj.net/iconcontest/iconsets.php
>
> I focused on the person icon near the lower left corner. It was
> clearly a traditional orange person, so that narrowed it down.
> Stippi's person icon was too fat, so that left zuMI and McClintock.
> The person icon's head was light grey, so I settled on McClintock. The
> problem was there are a bunch more icons, some of them looking a
> little out of place. The weird screen on the upper left, and the
> yellow blob on the lower right. So I go to McClintock's page and
> download the png version of his icons.
>
>
> http://mc.clintock.com/first_floor/study_1/desk/computer_projects/icons/BeOS_Icons/
>
> Jackpot. Almost all of the same icons where there. The screen was an
> Apple screen, and the yellow blob was a post-it note, but the mail box
> had a black flag in the screenshot and the paint brush was painting
> black, instead of red. The two people in the upper left corner were
> missing for some reason. One thing bothered me, there were a lot of
> digital artifacts in the screenshot around the icons. Zoom in to see.
> They almost look like marching ants. This meant one hing, digital
> manipulation, almost certainly compositing of the icons and background
> together. Why couldn't they just use the icons directly? So I did one
> last search for "BeOS icons" in Finder-SpydeR, um, I mean Google.
>
> BINGO
>
> Result number three, deviant art.
>
>
>
> Looks at the large version of the preview screenshot and the
> screenshot from Journeyman. Notice anything ? The icons on deviant art
> are in the exact same positions relative to each other, as they are in
> the Journeyman screenshot, in clusters anyway. The
> BeOS_Documents_Folder_2 icon and BeOS_Folder-queries are aligned
> vertically in both screenshots, as are BeOS_paint and BeOS_Stickies.
>
> So instead of using a screenshot of the icons with a blank wallpaper,
> someone went in and cut out the icons and took the time and effort to
> get rid of the white and grey squares.
>
> Stippi may have won the Haiku icon contest, but McClintock, via Kol,
> made it to Hollywood.
>
>
Those are the words of a true BeOS/Haiku fan! Great detective work. I doubt
I would have ever noticed something like that.
--
Dennis d'Entremont
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