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- noun A small piece of
detailing added to break up thesurface of anobject and addvisual interest, particularly inmovie special effects .
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Examples
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Well, It looks to me like a greeble on the underside of the heat exchanger.
Firefly Ship Works Ltd. » Blog Archive » Name That Part #3 2008
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I take representing digital culture in film very seriously in lieu of having grown up in a world of very badly researched user interface greeble.
Boing Boing Cory Doctorow 2011
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Squinting over my Serenity ornament, it’s identicle to a greeble under those swooping struts under the main engine and rear end of the ship.
Firefly Ship Works Ltd. » Blog Archive » Name That Part #3 2008
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I call it a greeble as opposed to a Named Part because I can’t determine a particular use for it.
Firefly Ship Works Ltd. » Blog Archive » Name That Part #3 2008
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Dey went inter fahmin ', en I speck ef de troof wuz ter come out, dey kep' sto ', en had der camp-meetin' times en der bobbycues w'en de wedder wuz 'greeble. "
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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Dey went inter fahmin ', en I speck ef de troof wuz ter come out, dey kep' sto ', en had der camp-meetin' times en der bobbycues w'en de wedder wuz 'greeble. "
Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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In graphics, a greeble is some essentially meaningless bit of detail added to break up a blank surface and add visual interest.
ruzuzu commented on the word greeble
"A greeble or nurnie is a small piece of detailing added to break up the surface of an object to add visual interest to a surface or object, particularly in movie special effects. They serve no real purpose other than to add complexity to the object, and cause the flow of the eye over the surface of the object to be interrupted, usually giving the impression of increased size. It is essentially the small detailed technical part of a larger object. The detail can be made from geometric primitives, including cylinders, cubes, and rectangles, combined to create intricate, but meaningless, surface detail. Greebles are commonly found on models or drawings of fictional spacecraft in science fiction."
--Wikipedia
November 3, 2011