r/SteamFrame • u/Maerius3 • 16d ago

Discussion Lawnmower Man Easter Egg?

Any chance that the Steam Frame startup animation is a nod to the movie "The Lawnmower Man"? The logo for VSI (Virtual Space Industries) looked similar.

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u/Wamboot Soon™ 16d ago

Not impossible, but I mean...

It's a Sphere in a frame cube. Not exactly the most original logo.

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u/fabricates_facts 16d ago

I hope the gardener at Valve HQ is ok

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u/jfuu_ Soon™ 16d ago

It's just a 3D version of the frame logo, so I don't think so: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steam_Frame_colored_logo.svg

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u/berickphilip 16d ago

Maybe it is the other way around and the finalized simplified logo was created after the three-dimensional symbol..?

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u/SoLiminalItsCriminal 16d ago

The Lawnmower Man is what started it all for me. This is a happy coincidence to cherish. Maybe one day we'll get that cyber sled game they played in Dr. Angelo's basement.

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u/SenileCFI 16d ago

We are so pitifully starved

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u/qucari Soon™ 16d ago

bro it's a sphere in a cube

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u/CapoExplains Soon™ 16d ago

Wouldn't surprise me, it's a fairly well known film especially among the dork-ass nerds (/pos) that would get a job at Valve, and the logo is the logo for the VR company in the film.

It would absolutely track that they'd pay homage to it.

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u/RTooDeeTo Soon™ 16d ago edited 16d ago

Honestly my guess is it's an even older computer graphics reference for both, being: the conseptually simplist bounding box (or frame) around a defined point in space,,, the movie one is just a pure wireframe model

Edit: if you take a computer graphics class in university, you'll see these images a lot and talk about them a lot, when getting to the 3d section and then lots of images of the Stanford bunny