After seeing Project Hail Mary on IMAX, I’ve been obsessed with the film’s adaptation, visuals, and sound. It was great to see the spirit of the book captured so well on screen. The IMAX experience was truly wonderful, reminding me of the feeling I had after seeing Gravity and Contact (though Contact didn’t have an IMAX release).

The computer display that I am trying to recreate

I found myself particularly drawn to one specific computer display in the control room. ⬆️See above image. The display indicated by the left arrow has been rotated by 90°. And I believe that this display has two layouts: simplified UI vs full UI. So I’ve decided to take a detour from my Enterprise-D project to work on this Project Hail Mary display!

It’s a pretty big ship, so how many turbolifts are there on the big D?🤔 Is it unlimited like Voyager’s shuttles?😉🖖

  How many turbolifts does the Enterprise-D have?

The Ent-D project development is moving along. Currently I’m setting up the lower panel LCARS. Will be adding some random blinking and color shifting to make it lively.

  Enterprise-D LCARS Asset Prep (timelapse)

wide engineering station LCARS display

On an average size monitor, the buttons on this panel will be too small to be useful.🤔 Need to figure out a way to have functional buttons for the interactive features.

⬆️ Above image shows the full engineering display that I am replicating. It’s actually quite wide, in an approximately 20x9 aspect ratio.

🛠️ Dev site should be ready in less than 2 weeks, available for the paid supporters on Patreon & Ko-Fi. Cheers~

2026 — Star Trek’s 60th Anniversary🖖

* YouTube version

Two long-duration videos of TURBOLIFT 1 are now available on my YouTube channel. Both are in the atypical [21:9] ultrawide aspect ratio with up to 4K high resolution quality.

  8-hour long in default theme

  1-hour long in Fuel Ignition theme

New project development moved at a slower pace than planned over the last two months. I ended up putting focus on improving my previous project, TURBOLIFT 1. This update introduces new sound effects and a more refined ambient engine sound. I’ve also implemented a new settings section for better user customization. All settings are stored locally only.

: : Additional keyboard Shortcuts:   M for toggling audio.   ctrl+S for settings.

Happy Holidays~
🖖 Big shout out to all my Patreon & Ko-Fi supporters - Thanks!!

I am in the early phase of creating my next LCARS project. The new web project will be an interactive version of the U.S.S. Enterprise-D’s master system display (MSD). My goal is to mimic the iconic LCARS style & color scheme from the displays used in ST:TNG era.

Two long duration Titan.DS videos are available on my YouTube channel. Both are in 4K quality. They should be great to play on those large TV screens. Cheers🖖

  MAP module: 1-Hour Loop in 4K

  Warp Drive module: 1-Hour Loop in 4K*

In the release build 2025.06.17B, the Auto Mode can now be activated immediately when you use a special URL to view the Titan.DS website. See examples below. Please note, the website’s default URL for general usage remains as: https://www.mewho.com/titan/

Remember this star chart by Andrew Jarvis featured in Season 1 of Star Trek: Picard? …Well, I’ve finally turned it into an interactive MAP module on Titan.DS🙂

This map represents a very small region of space in the Alpha & Beta quadrants of our Milky Way galaxy. To provide context, I’ve also added a Galaxy View to contrast with the Regional View. (*Our galaxy is really big!) ⬇️Here is a quick demo video of the new module. A longer walk-through video will be published soon.

User Manual

Happy Star Wars Day😉

devLog This Galaxy object will be included in the final MAP module of Titan.DS. Image source of this Milky Way galaxy illustration is from NASA/JPL-Caltech: https://science.nasa.gov/universe/galaxies/ I made it a little bit 3D-ish. The central Star Trek setting represents only a relatively small area when compared to the immense size of the Milky Way. A galaxy is really huge! And this is only a tiny portion of the entire universe~🤔
May the force be with you🖖

* YouTube version

One of my goals for Titan.DS has been to find ways to keep it visually engaging, even when you’re not actively interacting with it. It’s taken a while to get here because Titan.DS’s codebase has grown significantly over the last two years. I’ve spent the past several months reorganizing and scaling the app’s internal logic. This made it easier to develop the algorithm for Auto Mode’s controlled randomness, and I’m pretty excited to finally release it! This feature has been requested by several fans, with the first request dating back quite a while❤️ If you’ve used Auto Mode in my other projects: STARFIELD 47 & Project RITOS, you’ll feel right at home🙂

  Titan.DS Auto Mode Demo

App Settings

This update introduces a new Settings section for Titan.DS. Several internal variables can now be customized. These settings are stored locally only, and they will stay in effect when you revisit the site. A “reset” button has been added to the loading screen to revert all settings to their default values. This button is hidden unless a setting has been modified from its default.

NOTE: The setting, “Text Rendering on Buttons,” primarily affects the Chrome browser. Its default setting minimizes text flickering but may result slight blurriness.

Settings display

buttons to open Settings & User Manual

Desktop app version of the Titan.DS website, packaged by using Electron framework. The content of the app is self-contained, no internet connection required. Right click on the app window to access options from the popup context menu.

three tiled Titan.DS windows w/ context menu

current system info integrated with gauges

Finally converted the Titan.DS website into a wallpaper for Wallpaper Engine. It’s freely available now from the Workshop on Steam. *Please note: Wallpaper Engine is a third-party paid program, with a one-time cost of US$4.99. Keep read for a free alternative Windows app.

Warning ⚠️ Early test build.
This alpha build is not code signed, meaning your operating system will not be able to identify who made this app. As a result, your OS and/or anti-virus program probably will complain or block this app from running when it attempts to launch it on the first time.

I don’t usually make mobile wallpapers, but since one of my favorite Trek series is coming to an end😢, I made this simple Cerritos-Delta image for my lock screen to pay tribute to it.

Feel free to use/share them. All 3 variants can be downloaded from my public albums on Google Photos & Flickrs.

🖖 #StarTrekLowerDecks ~ Thanks for all the fish

The snowflakes effect was added a year ago [see 2023.Dec.14 log entry]. This effect is set to run automatically during the holiday season (Nov. 1 ~ Jan. 3). Now you can use a URL override suppress or force the effect during any time of the year:

• mewho.com/ritos?snowflakes=off
• mewho.com/ritos?snowflakes=on

Also fixed a couple of minor bugs: log display buggy animation; flying shuttlecraft bug on Firefox.

Project RITOS ❄️ Happy Holidays

New YouTube video is up! It showcases the functionalities of the latest Titan.DS module. Info about this Warp Drive module’s release can be found in the November 18 log entry.

  Titan.DS Warp Drive Module Demo

Just having fun… Attempted at recreating the Romulan Valdore arcade game from that small yet adorable scene in Star Trek: Lower Decks episode 5x05 “Starbase 80?!”

So far it’s a demo, a proof of concept. Not sure if I should continue in making this one. Though I do wonder who the final boss is🤔 Btw, the Romulan emblem on top of that machine looks quite marvelous!

I am social-posting mainly on Bluesky now, and often cross-posting to Mastodon & Facebook.

🦋 Bluesky :: @mewho-rob.bsky.social
Mastodon :: mastodon.social/@mewho
FB :: facebook.com/mewhoRob/

❌ twitter account deactivated.

Cheers 🖖

Warp Drive is now online on Titan.DS!

Previewing the Matter/Antimatter Injectors and Warp Coils, part of the upcoming WARP DRIVE module on Titan.DS website.

SVG line art elements were created in Figma, then animated via CSS & Javascript. The new module is scheduled to be released later this month. Cheers🩵🖖
*Design Reference :: Star Trek: Picard & Mike Okuda’s TNG Technical Manual (wiki_link)

  Titan.DS Warp Drive Module Demo

T minus 30 DAYS to October 24th…

…the premiere of the final season of Star Trek: Lower Decks!😀   Trek Countdown site has already been set to counting down to this event. I’m gonna miss this show so much😢

While the clock is ticking down, I updated the site a little: Added a subtle soft Glow Effect filter, off by default, and disabled on Safari due to a browser bug. The toggle button is located near top right of the screen. See image below.

Over the past month or so, I’ve been refining STARFIELD 47. Initially, it was going be a small maintenance update, with the goal of creating a long-form video for YouTube that can be run on TV or perhaps used as a type of ASMR video.

  Starfield 47 • 8-Hour Loop in 2K

Sorry for the delay. Took me a while to make this demo video😬 It’s finally done.
YouTube link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8t5Ftvqh7M

  Protostar.NX / Demo

Go Fast > Protostar.NX interactive site at meWho.com/protostar !!! 🖖 Built with 🧡

Protostar.NX is now active at meWho.com/protostar

Protostar Plan View Module

This blueish LCARS stands unique in its slight difference from the traditional Trek interface. It is based on the fictional UI seen on the starship U.S.S. Protostar in Star Trek: Prodigy.

As the TV series “ST: Discovery” coming to a close, here I present you my latest module addition, NCC-1031, to the Titan.DS website. The toggle for this new module can be found on the right side of the main display, sitting below the NCC-1701-G module button.

horizontal view option

vertical view option

Titan.DS’s latest update features the integration of my new project, APOD STARDATE. APOD can now be accessed & viewed directly within Titan.DS as a module. This module toggle is located near the lower right section of the main display, adjacent to the Spacedock module button.

APOD Module in Titan.DS

APOD STARDATE is my interpretation of a webapp featuring minimal Star Trek LCARS UI, displaying astronomical image/text content from the NASA APOD website (Astronomy Picture of the Day). It includes voice narration, audio visualizer, and sound effects. The UI is interactive and responsive for various screen resolutions. Given the stunning visuals of many APOD images, this webapp is optimally developed for a desktop experience.

APOD Stardate screenshots

Ahh… it’s that time of the year again with all the Star Trek: The Cruise 2024 photos popping up on social medias. Very envious, still … 🤪 Oh well, here’s a slightly updated version of the MSD LCARS I created last year for the Mariner of the Seas. I hope the ship’s config didn’t change much.🖖

Mariner of the Seas LCARS MSD

And Yes, there is duck somewhere in this MSD.
⚠️ DISCLAIMER: I’m definitely not sponsored by Star Trek: The Cruise. For folks who are currently on the ship, please don’t visit that deck sector to hunt for the duck. Thanks~

Project E.D.E. • animated website — A recreation of a static LCARS display of the ENTERPRISE-D from ST:TNG episode “Emergence” S7x23. Originally designed beautifully by Mike Okuda. Rick Sternbach might also contributed it, as mentioned in one of Mike’s tweets.

This specific design by Mike is a work of art that I find particularly appealing. I intentionally chose to keep its simplicity and made only a few modifications, adding minimal animations and basic interactivity. This project will remain as a standalone webpage with no plans for major updates. The aspect ratio of this display will resize to some degree depending on your browser size.

Oh by the way, E.D.E. stands for…
Enterprise-D  Emergence  😉 Cheers~

User Manual on the UI functions

High resolution screenshots & videos of E.D.E. LCARS can be downloaded from:

• LCARS Images (Google Photos Album)
• LCARS Images (Flickr)
• LCARS Animations (Google Photos Album)

* Free for personal use. Do not repurpose it and then claim ownership.

Project EDE :: a work in progress.
Been wanting to recreate this Enterprise-D LCARS for a while. Original graphic by Mike Okuda (& possibly Rick Sternbach* too?), seen in the ST:TNG episode S7x23 — “Emergence”. This design is like an artwork, so I am making it a standalone simple webpage with minimal animations & interactivity.

I twitted about* this LCARS image in Feb 2023. 💙Thanks to Portal Realm & Joe Ralat for sharing the reference images.

  Project E.D.E. devLog

This Titan.DS holiday update idea came at the last minute. Initially, I was attempting to fix the existing sound effect on the ten 3D DNA pairs so that they would match a musical note scale. Previously, I had the audio pitch (PlaybackRate) change on a linear scale via Javascript. After some R&D, I adjusted it to a logarithmic scale. And that worked! Then, one thing led another, and I added a holiday musical section to the DNA module! I might have learned more about musical notation during this update than I’ll ever need😂 Oh, one of the music clips is my very poor imitation of Data’s Life Forms song😬

Titan.DS December Update Infographic

A holiday update to Project RITOS:

• Happy Holidays ❄️ Enjoy the falling snowflakes ~ This effect will remain active until January 3rd. At the top left corner of the page, you’ll find two faint snowflake controls. Use them to remove the effect or add more snowflakes. Be cautious 👉 adding too many will inevitably slow down the overall animation performance.
• 5 recent images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have been added to the JWST Images section.

Happy DW 60th Anniversary! That first episode was fun & warm🧡

This Doctor Who Gallifreyan Clock update is a minor one — All UI functions can now be controlled via keyboard shortcuts:

infographic

The shortcuts can also be seen by clicking on the question mark icon in the lower right corner of the screen. Allons-y!

I didn’t get a chance to create an infographic when the Spacedock module was released, so here I’ve made two back-to-back infographics for the latest two modules on the Titan.DS interactive website — Enterprise-G & Spacedock modules.

Enterprise-G Module UI Infographic

Spacedock Module UI Infographic

Also recorded a one-hour 4K video of the Spacedock module — great for playback on an older machine or on a TV via Chromecast, Fire Stick, or other similar devices.

  Spacedock Module: 1-Hour Loop in 4K

Other long-duration videos are available on my YouTube channel. If you enjoyed these videos, be sure to Like/Share/Subscribe🧡 Thanks!

Uploaded two Enterprise-G related videos to my YouTube channel.

1. A User Manual / Demo Video: This one covers all the interactive elements in the new Enterprise-G module. It also reveals several easter eggs I buried🙂 The video resolution goes up to 4K.
2. A Long Duration Video: This one-hour video of the Enterprise-G module was recorded in 4K — could be fun to play it on a tablet, or on a TV via Chromecast, Fire Stick, or other similar devices.

  Enterprise-G Module: User Manual / Demo

  Enterprise-G Module: 1-Hour Loop in 4K

If you enjoyed these videos, be sure to Like/Share/Subscribe🧡 Thanks!

The new Enterprise-G module is ready just in time for Halloween🎃. As usual, you can activate this module using a button located on the right-side panel of the main display. Look for the NCC-1701-G button on the Titan.DS website. Please keep in mind that this is a fairly resource-intensive module, so it might affect browser performance on slower/older machines😬

Drawing inspiration from the rich source materials of ST: Picard, I’ve remixed & incorporated various UI elements from season 3 into this module. A big shout-out to Jeremy M for sharing some set photos he took; they’ve been a big help for referencing🧡 Additional reference photos publicly & generously tweeted by Dave Blass and Bill Krause were utilized. Bill Krause is the designer of the Constitution III Titan!

⚠️ Designed with a focus on 4k displays, this particular module may display smaller elements & text as slightly fuzzy or blurry on an HD (1080p) display😬

A small update to Project RITOS:

• 11 new images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have been added to the JWST Images section.
• New feature: NSC / Nacelle Sucking Creature In the JWST Images section, a new NSC button has been added to the bottom of the screen. It reveals the nacelle sucking creature — it moves back & forth right on top of the space image😉

This Spacedock (Sol Station 398392 / aka Probert Station) is based on a short LCARS video clip tweeted by ST: Picard’s FUI (Fictional UI) designer Andrew Jarvis. That clip could be briefly spotted in season 3. I made a few changes & added several interactive animations so that it could be integrated with the Titan.DS website smoothly.

A kind warning: I used a combination of SVG animation and CSS 3D transform to create the overall effect. It could be a bit heavy when running on a underpowered machine, resulting sluggish performance. And somehow Firefox crashes frequently when displaying this module, at least on my machine 🤷 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯   👉I will make a long recording of this module and share it on my YouTube channel soon, so that everyone could enjoy this Spacedock animation without needing a fast computer.

  Spacedock Module demo

🔶Additional short videos & high-resolution screenshots are available in my online albums:

• LCARS Images (Google Photos Album)
• LCARS Images (Flickr)
• LCARS Animations (Google Photos Album)

Anyhoo, besides being an interactive module, I’ve also repurposed those spinning mini LCARS to list out names of my project supporters on the Patreon & Ko-Fi platforms, as my special way of making shoutouts😉 🧡 YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT IS MOST APPRECIATED! The names are arranged randomly on each refresh. Remember to use the “Via Patreon” & “Via Ko-Fi” buttons to switch on/off the platform category.

What’s next on Titan.DS? It will be an Enterprise-G sideview display — voted recently by my Patreon members😃 Cheers~

Holy Koala…

…Spotted this while rewatching Star Trek: Lower Decks season 2’s Dragon Ship episode [S2 Ep #7 Where Pleasant Fountains Lie]. A familiar screenshot of System 47 screensaver was shown on the shuttlecraft’s display towards the end of the episode (~22:57) 🤣 So Surreal and Awesome~~

Updated the Trek Countdown site with countdown to Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 4 premiere.
Go Ritos!

Been working on this update gradually over the past few months — schedule was rather chaotic. Though I’m really happy that this update is finally complete.

In essence, I integrated my Starfield 47 project into Titan.DS. And a new module was born. I’ve named it the STELLAR CARTOGRAPHY module!

You’ll find the button for this module, labeled STLR-CRTO, positioned just above the DNA Module button, towards the lower right corner of the main display. Once activated, Titan.DS will attempt to load the Starfield 47 website within an iframe (a website within a website). Due to the difference in UI design, the original interface of Starfield 47 wouldn’t fit well with Titan.DS. To resolve this, I created a new UI layer within Titan.DS that would communicate with the SF47 iframe. You can still interact with the 3D Space in this module, just like in Starfield 47. The keyboard shortcuts with Starfield 47 retain their functionality here as well. (Remember to click on the 3D Space before utilizing the shortcuts to ensure the module gains focus first.)

Stellar Cartography module infographic

  Stellar Cartography module user manual / demo

🐨The Cosmic Koala has been hiding in Project RITOS since last year (2022). This video shows you how to find it😉
🖖May the Cosmic Koala Smile Upon You~

It’s been while since my last update on this project… There’s this one feature that I wanted to add ever since I saw an example on Babylon.js Playground website. It’s a 3D star generated by using Babylon.js’s awesome particle system. I finally incorporated it in Starfield 47 with a few modifications & randomization.

  Starfield 47: 2023 July Update demo

So how to see the 3D big stars in STARFIELD 47? When the warp speed sits at zero, first turn on the Star Markers (STARS button) from the Control Panel (shortcut key T). Then click on any one of the star markers floating in the space to toggle the 3D star. Double-click on the 3D star or the text marker to change the camera’s zoom level. Or hit the shortcut key Y to focus on a random big star. Oh, black holes are out there too😉

Finally spent some time playing with Electron.js framework to turn Starfield 47 website into a desktop app. Once the desktop app is downloaded, it runs locally on your system without needing an internet connection. Multiple windows can be launched by using the Ctrl+N or Cmd+N keyboard shortcut. For Windows with multiple monitors, try Ctrl+Shift+F to activate the Super Fullscreen mode — a single Starfield 47 screen would span & display across on all of your screens. Additional keyboard shortcuts can be found in the README file.

Preview version of the Starfield 47 Desktop App can be downloaded from this Google Drive shared folder. Mac & Windows versions are available. Please read the “README” text file, especially for Mac users because of Mac OS’s built-in security measure could prompt the downloaded file being damaged.

Updated the Trek Countdown site with info on ST: Strange New Worlds’s season 2 episodes. Also added an mini ship animation to the loading screen🙂

A new starship module has been added: the USS Enterprise, NCC-1701 — the version from ST: Strange New Worlds (SNW). This wireframe graphic was recreated based on the images tweeted by Timothy Peel, SNW’s motion graphic designer/supervisor.

Since it’s a wireframe graphic, I thought it’d be fun to have a new ‘revealing’ animation sequence to go along with its line art style. I utilized SVG format’s stroke-dasharray property to create the line drawing effect. This main revealing sequence would always start on the line drawing of the saucer section. It’d then proceed to either the nacelles, the pylons or the engineering hull section by chance. As usual, I tried to build in as much randomization as possible, so the overall effect would always be presented slightly different on each run. The bridge, the saucer section & the nacelles are all responsive to clicks.😉

Small improvements were made on other ships as well. Titan.DS now has a total of 3 starship modules (Enterprise, ENT-D & ENT-F). More will be added in the future. Cheers~

  NCC-1701 Module demo

I recorded an 1-hour long video of Titan.DS in 4K resolution running with full sound effects on, including the ambient engine noise. A glow effect was added in the post with a video editing software before I uploaded the video to YouTube.

Ideally this could be viewed on a big smart TV via a YouTube app or a Chromecast/Fire Stick/Roku. A less powerful computer or tablet could also easily play this video, as opposed to running the more CPU-demanding Titan.DS website (Titan Display System).

  Titan.DS: SFX with Ambient Engine Noise, 1-Hour Loop in 4K

Let me know if there are other types of video you’d like to see🖖

• Titan.DS: SFX with Ambient Engine Noise • 1-Hour Loop in 4K

• Same recording but Without Ambient Engine Noise YouTube

• my YouTube channel, youtube.com/@system47. Please subscribe🧡 Thanks!

Been working on adding the sound effects (SFX) little by little to Titan.DS in the past few weeks. So glad it’s finally complete. 😫Pardon me — currently my brain is filled with constant beeping sounds. Hopefully that will go away soon!

On Titan.DS’s main display, look for the AUDIO button in lower left to activate the sound. (next to the fullscreen button) On desktop, the sound can also be toggled by hitting the M key on your keyboard. The Engine Ambient Noise has also been added. However, it is set to off by default. Head to Titan.DS’s ABOUT section to adjust the volume levels of the Engine Noise and the Sound Effect. Whenever the volume level is altered, the new level’s value gets stored in your browser’s cache. And it will persist when you visit the site again in the future. Have fun💙

Added Enterprise-D graphics (including some wallpapers) & some short animations to my publicly shared albums/channel.

• LCARS Images: Google Photos Album / Flickr
• Short duration LCARS Videos: Google Photos Album
• Long duration LCARS Videos on my YouTube Channel

Now that ST: Picard has concluded, I’ve updated the Trek Countdown site for counting down towards the season 2 premiere of ST: Strange New Worlds. Season 1 was awesome. So excited to see what’s in store for us in season 2🧡

Finale is coming out — for the cosmic koala’s sake, avoid spoilers. “Battle Stations Red Alert” - downloadable GIF & mp4 video clip 🖖Free to use

By the way, if you’re able to see this gif clip in full view on a big screen, right below the words “BATTLE STATIONS” you’ll notice a phrase “Okudagram • Type Jarvis 42.” Paying homage to Mike Okuda & Andrew Jarvis for giving us the LCARS 1.0 & 2.0😉

Made some bugfixes & performance improvements on Titan.DS, particularly for Firefox & Safari/iOS browsers. I applied blur effect on a few elements. And I have purposely suppressed this effect on Safari browser & any browsers running on iOS (all browsers on iOS actually use Safari as the engine). The blur filter effect is poorly supported on Safari and it affects the entire webapp’s performance unfortunately🙁

“Carpet Restored” & “Carpet Canceled” - downloadable GIFs & mp4 video clips
It was fun making the GIF back in early February. If you’re able to view the GIF on a big screen in full view, you’ll catch some of my silly text😁 Free to use🖖

Carpet Canceled

Carpet Restored

A major update on this project. Project was renamed from TitanEPS to Titan.DS because more non-EPS elements have been (and will be) added. The DS stands for “Display System”😀

In this update, two modules were added: DNA & Enterprise-D. The DNA graphics were inspired by ST:Picard Season 3. And the Enterprise NCC-1701-D’s vector graphic was created based on images found in the ST:TNG Tech Manual. Look for the buttons on the side panel to activate these two new modules. Also, two display modes were added: a GrayScale mode & a Light mode (aka, the Flashlight mode 😂). Do be careful with the Light mode. Don’t blind yourself😉 Below is the new URL for the Titan.DS project. Enjoy~🖖

DNA module

NCC-1701-D module

New URL for the project: mewho.com/titan
The initial version (simpler/cleaner) can still be viewed at: mewho.com/lab/titanEPS_1.html

The TITAN EPS starship graphic used in my TitanEPS project was recreated based on screenshot from the ST: Picard season 3’s end credits. I have cleaned it up slightly, probably could use more work. Feel free to use it in your non-commercial projects. Please include attribution when repurposing/resharing🙂

Download link: SVG+PNG in a zip

⚠ RED ALERT🔴 Cylon Agents aboard… wait, wrong TV show. Anyhoo, here’s an animated Red Alert GIF in ST: Picard style. (right click to save the file)

Alert - Condition Red

Alert - Condition Green

Transitioned my TitanEPS test page into a more solid project. More LCARS elements & animations have been added, and it supports ULTRAWIDE display!! The additional “side content” can be viewed on a regular 16:9 display as well. An Enterprise-F module & a Red Alert function are among the new additions.

👉Special shout out to Starbase400.org. I created the Enterprise-F line-art graphic based on the 3D renders provided by Starbase400🙂

ultrawide support: up to 32x9 aspect ratio

A bit jealous of seeing the tweets from folks currently on the Star Trek Cruise. So I checked out its website & the ship “Mariner of the Seas.” Hmm…one thing led to another, here you go🤪

Mariner of the Seas LCARS MSD

Yesterday’s season premiere was awesome! And that LCARS end-credits sequence was simply wonderful!! I quickly recreated the Titan EPS graphic and its animation on this test page: TitanEPS — mewho.com/lab/titanEPS_1.html
👉 The EPS boot-up sequence restarts every 47 seconds😉

Mariner of the Seas LCARS MSD

Made some tweaks on the Trek Countdown website in the past few days: new Borgify mode, a “Soong” mode, added UFP emblem with subtle animation. plus some misc fixes.

30 Days left to Star Trek: Picard’s season 3 premiere!!!
Made a new Trek Countdown webpage in ST: Picard’s new LCARS style (LCARS 2.0 ?) for easy tracking on the upcoming Trek episode.

👉Trek Countdown *on desktop: hit the top-right box to go fullscreen

  Trek Countdown demo

Tweaked my Doctor Who Gallifreyan Clock based on feedback. New hovering efx was added. The Gallifrey ring shatter effect happens automatically every minute on the minute, with overall shattering effect occurring every 10 minutes.
#webDev Made with 💙

* An one-hour loop 4K video is also available on my YouTube channel.

  Doctor Who Gallifreyan Clock • 1-Hour Loop in 4K

Added a new Sickbay module to Project RITOS. This was a fun module to code — especially on making up all the pseudo medical data😁

screenshot of the new Sickbay

  Project RITOS w/ Sickbay • 1-Hour Loop

Auto Mode (i.e. ScreenSaver / Kiosk / Demo Mode)

New Auto Mode feature added. When enabled (on by default), a UI Automation script will kick in after a prolonged idling (~30 sec) has been detected — to simulate user interaction with the app

* Happy 2023✨ The Cosmic Koala can be spotted from the “Tarantula Nebula” in the JWST Images section😉

Something different from Star Trek, a Doctor Who Gallifreyan Clock. I am a Doctor Who fan too, and I’ve been wanting to make this project for a while. So happy that it’s finally done😊 The design concept is from the circular Gallifreyan carved on the side of the Doctor’s baby cot back in the episode “A Good Man Goes to War.” It’s a really beautiful carving. And the space images are from James Webb Space Telescope, courtesy of NASA.

Doctor Who Gallifreyan Clock screenshot

Two new James Webb Space Telescope images have also been added in this update.

* HINT: the Cosmic Koala is observing us in the “cosmic” section.

Thanks to James Mitchell for taking time to construct a modified version of Project RITOS, it can now be easily placed on a Raspberry Pi device, then link to LED lights for Red Alert effect! Check out James’s PiRITOS repo on GitHub for instructions.

Project RITOS update: Sound Effects added, and the volume level can be adjusted in ABOUT > SETTINGS.

• Sound Effects added! Hit the Audio button or M on keyboard to toggle it.
• User Settings added. Optionally, settings can be retained, locally, for future visits.
• System 47 YouTube Video Display added. Hit the S.47 button on the main page to activate it.
• Misc updates:
  • A few more color schemes added
  • Hit the numerical clock to change its display type
  • Try hitting the warp core hatch and see what happens😉
• bugfix: r.Ducky misbehaves on older versions of iOS (14 & earlier) 😕
• HINT: the Cosmic Koala does exist on the site, though not on the ship section…

how to adjust the audio volume

Whew… finally made this project stable enough before Star Trek: Lower Decks season 3 finale’s release. What a wonderful season it has been🧡

  Project RITOS • 1-Hour Loop in 4K

USS Cerritos definitely has grown on me for the past three seasons. In recent episodes, ‘Room for Growth’ (s3e04) & ‘Reflections’ (s3e05), at last we got a good glimpse of the ship’s new schematics (MSD) in better resolution. And that gave me a push in making this crazy fan project (or crazy-fan project?)

Initially the plan was simply about recreating a static vector art of the ship’s MSD — master system display. Though one thing led to another, it has involved into what you see right now. Thanks to Mike Okuda’s timeless creation of the great fictional LCARS UI. It’s always attractive & flexible. Therefore, all LCARS projects are lucky to benefit from that inherent design beauty.

This particular LCARS website is more Lower Decks centric. And big thanks to all those fun source materials from Mike McMahan’s Team Lower Decks, I had a blast researching & coding Project RITOS😄 Hopefully I’ve made this technobabble UI intuitive enough for everyone. Enjoy ~

*Project R.I.T.O.S. = Recreating Interactive Technobabble Operating System😉

  Project RITOS • dev Preview

Star Trek: Lower Decks started its season 3 about a month & a half ago. It has been great, and I love every single episode so far! In season 1, I did feel pretty neutral about the USS Cerritos. Though now it has certainly grown on me. So I decided to spend some time recreating its schematics (MSD / Master System Display).

Two long duration STARFIELD 47 videos are now available on my YouTube channel. Both are in 4K quality, perfect to be displayed on those large TV screens😉 Cheers~

  Starfield 47 • 1-Hour Loop in 4K

  Starfield 47 Mini LCARS • 1-Hour Loop in 4K

System 47 Viewer for macOS is out - version 2.5.01. It can run in a resizable window or in fullscreen mode.

The mini LCARS Display in STARFIELD 47 has gone through several small improvements & bug fixes in the past few months. The goal is to provide unique chart/graph animations that are aesthetically pleasing, that’s all 😊

  Starfield 47 • Mini LCARS Display demo

I structured the mini LCARS Display with 3 root elements — a frame, a graph type and an optional panel of buttons. Each element has its own degree of variations & randomness:

Whew… finally finished adding sound effects to STARFIELD 47. Definitely more challenging than I anticipated to mix sound variations & randomness with interactive elements 😬 Also, modern web browsers do not allow audio playback right from the beginning if there’s no user interaction. This is a good thing in general. However, for developers, it’s rather tricky to work out the AudioContext detection in Javascript.

16 sound clips are used & mixed for various tasks in STARFIELD 47. And one of 6 different “whooshing” sounds is randomly used when the “space vector” is swinging.

  Starfield 47 • devLog: Sound Effects

Are you watching the new Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (SNW) TV series? Highly recommended! Not only the stories & characters were great, the tech displays on the show were phenomenal. Between this series and Star Trek: Picard, there were so many eye-catching fictional user interface effects to enjoy.

  Starfield 47 • devLog: Creating the circular Proximity Scan effect

In SNW season 1 episode 7 “The Serene Squall,” I caught this interesting circular scanning display on Enterprise’s viewscreen. The show’s designer Timothy Peel shared this display animation on his Twitter account, link below. I thought it’d be cool to emulate & integrate it into STARFIELD 47.

When I started the STARFIELD 47 project, I was targeting for the modern desktop browser platform. Prior to this, the only touch screen tests I had done were right on my phone. Recently I was lucky to get a hold on an old PC laptop with touch-screen capability. And here’s a recorded session of the test.

  Starfield 47 • devLog: Touch Screen Test

Thanks to LV’s suggestion, I’ve setup a Discord server 💬 — a place to chat about System47 & Starfield 47 and anything on Trek & LCARS! System47 Discord Server

After the recent addition of the ClipArt graph, it wasn’t too difficult to repurpose it and implement the slide-show-like SpaceImages graph for the Mini LCARS Display in STARFIELD 47.

  Starfield 47 • SpaceImages Display demo

I originally created the clipart sprites in Flash for System47 screensaver by using the Flash’s built-in rudimentary drawing tools. Each clip was just a static image, with no animation. In System47, I created a “info searching” animation effect by flipping a random static clip to another in several quick secessions. I recalled seeing similar effect several times on ST:TNG when Data or Geordi was looking up some database info from a display terminal. I thought it would be nice to repurpose these clipart images into STARFIELD 47.

  Starfield 47 • devLog: ClipArt Display

Added an interactive mini-LCARS displays😀 The mini-LCARS can display several different types of graphs. Best to experience it on your desktop. STARFIELD 47

A new webapp project I started making this year. It’s like a bridge’s viewscreen on Star Trek. It’s also like a stellar cartography. It features: 3D + Warp Speed + LCARS. It’s a website, and no additional installation is needed. For best experience, please view STARFIELD 47 on a not-too-old desktop machine with modern browsers. Hope you’ll enjoy it😀
👉Tip: put it on fullscreen mode & wait for the AutoNav to kick in. STARFIELD 47

  Starfield 47 Experience / demo

This updated System 47 screensaver includes all the features from the Viewer program, plus the multi-monitor support. Currently it is for Windows only. Due to tech changes in the past 20+ years, this screensaver’s “wrapper” binary is a bit different from the old version. See System 47 for additional info.🖖

Created a YouTube Channel to host videos about my projects. Plan to include devLogs, long-form recordings and possibly some tutorials. Be sure to Like/Share/Subscribe🧡 Cheers🖖

  System 47 • 1-Hour Loop in 4K

  S47 Enterprise-E Schematics • 1-Hour Loop in 4K

These videos were captured from System 47 Viewer Program / Screensaver. The animations utilized the entire 16x9 wide-screen area, as supported by the updated version, 2.5.01. This video’s playback quality is available up to 4K resolution. Enjoy😀

It’s been a long time… 🪏 Finally dug out my old code and made some changes to it. 🎉 New features include:

The Viewer Program is a desktop app. It is only available for Windows at the moment. See System 47 site for additional info.🖖

System 47 • version 2.5.01

Hi, meWho here… I created System 47 screensaver’s LCARS animation way back in 1999. It’s been a freeware from the beginning. Development was later seized in 2005/2006 — life got in the way :-/

Now, it’s 2021. How things have changed. Multiple new Star Trek series are on TV again, and the LCARS (ST:TNG computer display interface) can still be seen prominently in Star Trek: Picard & Star Trek: Lower Decks! What an exciting time. So I dug out the old source file and started working on System47 updates again :-)

  System47 - version 2.5 Preview

  Preview • Enterprise-E Schematics only

Version number will be moved up from 2.2 to 2.5. In some respects, this won’t seem like a huge update. However, some features I’ve added are the ones that System47 fans (and me myself) have been wanting for a long time. New features are:

• utilizing full 16x9 display area
• numerous upgrades to the Enterprise-E schematic animation
• volumes from effect sound and background sound can be independently adjusted
• bumping up the frame rate from 18 to 30FPS, resulting smoother animation — sorry, this might cause some low-end computers to struggle more with the playback

Hoping to release the beta version in November 2021. Feel free to leave a message right on my YouTube channel. Cheers🙂

Not LCARSing ~ ⏳ 🚀 🥾

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System 47 version 2.21 released for Mac.
Compatible with PowerPC and Intel based Macs.

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System 47 version 2.2 released for Windows & Mac.
Controls for volume and display are added. Check out the screen saver’s preference settings.

* Version 2.01 will be the last one supported under Mac OS9.

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System 47 Screen Saver Version 2.01 released for Windows & Mac.

• Bug Fix: A “freeze frame” bug was found in Version 2.0
• First System47 Version 2.x for Macintosh is released

Sector Map

Sector Map

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System 47 updated to Version 1.41:

• Opening start-up sequence animation added.
• Scrolling text updated, based on feedback.

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System 47 version 1.38 was release, for Windows only.