Star Trek TOS Enterprise Engineering Panel

Rayle

I love this panel. I think it is a very clever idea to move one colored layer behind de front panel in order to avoid lights. I tried to simulate that effect in this sketch. I used three .svg files: The front panel, the back panel with the colors that emulate lights, and an almost invisible black panel between them to create a 3D illusion with a little shadow. You can see the final result in the image.

PShape panel, luces, sombra; // front panel, back panel, shadow panel
String s1 = "NCC 1701 / WARP ON"; // first message
String s2 = "NORMAL FUNCTION"; // second message

int x = 14; 
int distanciax = 14; // pixels to move the back panel
float angulo = 1.57 ; // to make the panel go to the right and again to the left
float velocidad = 0.01; //speed

void setup() {
  size (800, 565);
  background (200);
  panel = loadShape("panel.svg");
  luces = loadShape("luces.svg");
  sombra = loadShape("sombra.svg");
}

 void draw() {
  angulo += velocidad;
  float controlador = sin(angulo); // determines if the front panel goes to right (+) or to left (-)
  fill(0, 20);
  noStroke();
  rect(0, 0, width, height);
  if ((controlador < -0.5 && controlador > -1)&&(x>0)) {
      x--;
      }
      else if ((controlador < 0.5 && controlador >0) && (x<distanciax)) {
      x ++;
      }
  shape(luces, x, 0);
  shape(sombra, 0, 0);
  shape(panel, 0, 0);
  if (controlador > 0) {
        textSize(8);
        fill(#08FA3E);
        text (s1, 245, 122);
  }
      else if (controlador < 0) {
        textSize(8);
        fill(#08FA3E);
        text (s2, 254, 122);
  }
}

jeremydouglass

Thanks for sharing, @Rayle. I recall that you did a sketch of Spock's science station earlier -- at this rate you will have used Processing to simulate the whole bridge set from Star Trek soon!

https://forum.processing.org/two/discussion/21597/star-trek-moire-pattern