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I’ve wanted to change the header image from the defaul for some time, but could never think of anything appropriate, and more importantly, that I had the right to use.  While the new “Radiation Hazard” based image isn’t perfect, it’s based on the SuperAtomic theme, and was created by me many moons ago.

For the uninitiated, SuperAtomic is a name that was created by a friend of mine, that we adopted as teenagers to mean “beyond awesome”.  It had latched itself into our vernacular for years, until we finally bestowed on it a rightful place in our lore, never to be used verbally again.  And so superatomic.com was born, way back in I-can’t-remember-when, as OUR domain.  …to the extent that the last time I renewed it, I renewed it for a 9 year period – the maximum available at the time.

When we created the domain, we were doing geeky things like creating websites, and at that time I was into computer 3d modelling/rendering/animation.  Doing volumetric lighting in 3d rendering was a bit of a fascination of mine as well (just ask Bryan, and remind him of a certain concert we went to where volumetric lighting was the star of the show… literally, unfortunately).

I created the image used in the new header using Truespace 3D 4.x, a program which was extremely unique in that industry, and although quite buggy, also quite groundbreaking and intuitive.  I paid – I can’t remember – probably 300 or 400 CAD for this program back in the day.  Now it’s available for free at version 7.6.  Get it while you can, because rumour has it that Microsoft bought the company, and then quickly fired all employees and terminated development on the programme.  (Does this remind anyone of MS buying Homer’s company?)

The image is of the classic “Radiation Hazard” logo, which we adopted as the logo for SuperAtomic productions (capitalisation sic). It was one of the volumetric renderings.  I have another animated one of it spinning, which looks fantastic, but is unfortunately a .mov file, and not suitable as a header image (and probably a bit annoying after a few spins anyway).

While not really topic-pertinent, it’s SuperAtomic-pertinent, and pretty cool, and the colours match (well enough).  So I hope you like it!