AtmoSpheres

Thursday, August 24, 2006 by Richard Nichols

AtmoSpheres Design Panel

This is a daydream mood panel that could be used as a background for a PowerPoint title slide.Microsoft’s trainers and other presenters tend to call stacks of PowerPoint slides "decks" these days,as if the speaker support portion of a presentation were a deck of cards. My guess is that unless an image is projected on the wall, it doesn’t qualify to be a slide any more.

The image above is a cloud photo that I ran through a couple of Photoshop Actions to flatten and re-color various parts and selectively emboss other areas. It is peppered with stars turned slightly counterclockwise (-12.5 degrees) with bubbles that vary in transparency.

Do you ever wonder what’s up with naming things such as software as if it is spelled SoftWare? When did it become correct to name products like PowerPoint, QuickBooks, FrontPage, SharePoint or WillMaker?

That peculiar distortion of the English language is called "camel case." I chose the name "AtmoSpheres" because it illustrates the CamelCaseConcept. According to the Wikipedia,

CamelCase is the practice of writing compound words or phrases where the words are joined without spaces, and each word is capitalized within the compound.

For an interesting history of CamelCase, visit the link. It appears that MisterRogers is one of the EarlyAdopters from ModernTimes, dating back to 1962.

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One Response to “AtmoSpheres”

  1. Dave Ehlert Says:

    I do NOT like hyphenated words, so often join words together, however did not realize, until now, there was a name for this. Thank you.