You can even get a start with one of the #myst25 25th anniversary book boxes to save time getting the book part right. My Myst book build was pretty crazy build back in the day, but the good news is that what I said above at the end of my build log about electronics getting cheaper & easier all the time is true! Myst/Riven/Exile are now supported by ScummVM so an ARM-based Raspberry Pi could run them, and x86-based compute sticks are also now a thing too that are probably fast enough (if not a NUC style system probably would be) if you want to go down the road of playing the native binaries. The numerals make their appearances many times in the later games, including in the D'ni cavern itself in places like Kadish's gallery, so they're definitely D'ni in origin. They were first introduced to us in Riven, but it was D'ni's numbering system that Gehn was imposing on the Rivenese people, in a similar way to how Cho tries to speak D'ni at you because Gehn was trying to make them speak D'ni too. Once the resin was cured I carefully removed the packing tape and the segments were ready. A vacuum chamber would be great if you’ve got one to remove the bubbles, but I didn’t have one. I recommend carefully picking up the cured acrylic blocks and looking at them from underneath to check for any plaster clumps or bubbles too. Use a needle to break up the remaining clumps and to remove any air bubbles that might be stuck in the corners. If you try this, sift the plaster into the resin while stirring to make it as evenly distributed as possible and to reduce plaster clumps in the resin. The empty cells were filled with a 7:1 mixture of clear resin with super fine plaster of paris (mixed before pouring, obviously), which was the best-looking diffusing medium I tried. This kept the packing tape under constant tension, so that the resin cured against a smooth flat surface. I placed a piece of clear packing tape on a table with the sticky side up, stretched it out as far as I could, then carefully placed the front of the acrylic piece on the stretched tape.
For the side that was to be the “front”, aka the good-quality side, I wanted the poured resin cells to be smooth & flush with the surface of the acrylic, which is tricky. To help bounce light around inside each cell as much as possible, I airbrushed them with a thin white paint before filling them with resin.
(Laser-cutting D'ni digits out of acrylic) The black parts are made from laser-cut 4.5mm black acrylic. The trickiest part is to have even light diffusion throughout an entire cell. Laser cutting holes in sheet acrylic and filling them with translucent resin was the way to go. The design itself was all made in Inkscape.
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I couldn’t find any instructions or guides out there on how to make your own (I’m sure there has to be some out there somewhere), so I had to work it all out myself from trial and error. There’s so many places I could start with describing how this project was made so I’m gonna pick the one that probably interests most people reading this – the custom D’ni digit 25-segment displays! These are basically like my own custom 7-segment displays, but they’re easier to read with much higher contrast than store-bought 7-segs. So I had to come up with my own solution… And here’s how that turned out! This whole project was designed to be as cheap, low-tech, skill-free, and expensive-tool-free as possible. There’s nothing like these digits anywhere out there on the market, aside from something crazy like using LCD displays, but that didn’t interest me much and would be a bit pricey. The Guild of Archivists has more details on how the actual D’ni timekeeping system works if that interests you. Here's an example, showing how you add the row & column header symbols together to get the final number symbol:Įach D'ni "day", or "yahr", is roughly 30 hours, 14 minutes long and each D'ni "second", or "prorahn", is roughly 1.4 seconds. The numbers themselves are based on the numbers 0-4, which are then rotated anticlockwise 90° to represent 5/10/15/20. That is, what they call “10”, we call “25” – the same way that in hexadecimal “10” represents what we call “16”. This means they count up using symbols like, ,, …,. First up, a little primer – the digits used in the Myst games, aka D’ni digits, are a base-25 numbering system.
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