It's too bad that five-point star feature that was so prevalent in TOS insignia has been so de-emphasized in modern signage.
Was probably a cost-saving measure in TNG and beyond. They already had colored uniforms inferring department designations. The costuming department likely felt adding the star, planet, curvy-thing and red cross to the insignia was simply redundant and deprecated it for all 24th century uniforms.
Yes, the arrowhead department insignia were redundant because there was no difference between it and the shirt colour. The Bob Fletcher costumes for the films go crazy for insignia, but TNG pares it right down again.
Ew. Old picture. I didn't construct the corridors as you think. I literally built all the different widths of wall panels (there were several standard sizes, ranging from 1.5 feet to 6 feet IIRC) and then laid them out on top of a TOS stage diagram, rotating each piece as needed to match the set plans. Each piece was rotated differently, based on its width. Therefore, there is no standard rotation size, but I could extrapolate the diameter for you. Again, I'm not trying to create some crazy network of corridors that would actually fit inside the ship. I'm creating smaller sections of corridors to represent key areas of the ship.
Yeah, when I was attempting to build "The Whole Damn Thing" I thought I was going to come up with an Automatic Corridor Building methodology. Never happened.
The radius of the curved corridor (according to the original set plans) was 50'3" from the centre to the outer curved wall. It's not easy to see the 50'3" but it can be calculated based on the other, clearer callouts on the page. The "radial beam" is the big one crossing the middle of the briefing room
Challenged myself to see how fast I could model and texture the TOS communicator. Started last night at midnight and finished just now at 7:30 pm. Whew! And if you go here, you can load up the Marmoset 3D viewer: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Q6NZB
And here's a video (without any special animations yet) so you can see it how it looks in-game and reacting to light. It's on my flickr so you'll have to click on the image below to view it.
I did some more modifications today, namely some light scratches on the body and grille, and I also added a nameplate to the back. I know it's not canon, but it's fun to take some artistic liberties here and there. I'll probably add similar nameplates to the tricorder and phaser as well. The text is entirely conjecture, and borrows the "Starfleet R&D" text we later see on tricorders in TNG onward. Thoughts? And here's a couple more beauty shots:
I'm not fond of the nameplate. It doesn't seem in keeping with the clean TOS aesthetic. Other than that, spectacular work.
Yeah, I'm not sure how I feel about it either. I'm even second guessing the screws. Luckily I can take both out easily if I decide to.