The square ring put the ticks in the corners where the room is, and made
every distance from the centre depend on direction — a marker at 45 sat
further out than one at north. A dial is read by angle, so the ring it is
read against is the same distance away all the way round now, and the
markers need one radius instead of a per-direction one.
The antenna is a sector that fades outwards rather than an arrow: an
antenna does not look along a line, it looks through a lobe, and the
arrow claimed a precision the beamwidth does not have. Where the mouse
would send it is drawn the same way, and its azimuth cross-fades into the
big readout while aiming — the figure is read at the moment the beam is,
so it belongs in the same place rather than somewhere to look away to.
Three colours, three meanings, kept apart: green where the antenna IS
(as everywhere else in OpsLog), orange where a click would send it,
yellow what was ORDERED. His revision drew all of them orange and yellow,
which loses the distinction the dial exists for — and drew the second
lobe of a bidirectional Ultrabeam at full strength, indistinguishable
from the main one. It is dimmed again; the dashed boom, the REV/BI badge
and the compact form are untouched.
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