Talk:Nurnie

Hello! I am the copyright owner of the site in question (homepage.mac.com/johnselvia/) AND author of the nurnie entry! You said the nurnie entry was being held up because it appeared to infringe on the copyrights of my site, yet I'm the one who wrote the article!

Someone suggested leaving the text but deleting the images. The concept of nurnies isn't immediately clear, and illustrations help get the idea across. Please leave the images as illustration of the concept.

Please release the entry since I created both of them. Thanks! John Selvia johnselvia@mac.com http://homepage.mac.com/johnselvia/

Someone has edited the page to suggest that DETAIL is a sufficient term. I disagree, and I ask anyone else who disagrees to monitor this page and edit it to correct the content. The person in question believes that DETAIL is specific simply because he had never heard of the word "nurnie" before. I suppose he thought the term "blue" sufficient to describe "red" before he had heard of red.

If I edit the nurnie page, he'll re-edit it, so those who know what a nurnie is, stand up for it!

It has been suggested that the word DETAIL is also a sufficient term. This is incorrect. Nurnie describes a specific type of detail.
 * To this specific type of detail, could you please explain? Maybe give a definition or visual reference as to show the difference?

Clarification of the difference
The small bits of technological-looking junk that cover the surfaces of ships such as the Battlestar Galactica, the Millenium Falcon, a Borg Cube, a Y-Wing fighter... all those small details are called Nurnies. Or Greebles. Either way, they are not simply called "detail"

Visual reference could be obtained by going to www.starshipmodeler.com and looking at the gallery, or do a Google search for Borg Cube or Millenium Falcon. By the definition of Greeble, the term has been used at least since the 70's. Nurnie has been in use since the early 90's.  The terms have made their way into the industry lexicon, and are here to stay. People who use the terms on a regular basis know what they mean, and know the difference between a nurnie or greeble and simple "detail".

-Jarrod Davis

Nurnies vs Greebles
What is the difference? --Cornflake pirate 13:45, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Identical with Greebles as Defined
Based on your description it seems as though nurnies are 100% synonymous with greebles. Nothing in the definition of either seems to set them apart. As of my reading the entry lacks images. I would like to see them. I agree that greebles and nurnies are distinct from detail. It is not a sufficient term.

-Greg Banville

I could agree that Greebles and Nurnies seem to be synonymous. I personally heard the term Nurnie, as coined by Ron Thornton, before I heard the term Greeble, even though Greeble seems to have been said first.

-Jarrod Davis

Spam?
Removed link to site selling meshes. That tripped my personal spam-o-meter.

(Oh, and also while I'm here - I've always thought that nurnies were nonfunctional flat-plate style detail and greebles were larger, semi-functional constructions and extrusions. That's just my take on the "what's the difference?" argument.) =] -- Vesh (at work and still not logged in)