How Valve got Half-Life’s Logo
May 10, 2009 by Ruibo
After seeing this image, I can’t possibly get it out of my head. Yes, this may not entirely be how it derived but a crowbar representing the letter Lambda does look pretty cool.
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Kewl… now head to 4chan
In other news…
It’s a pretty interesting notice – the arm with the crowbar is a really important symbol throughout the series with the up thrust hand clenching a crowbar re-appearing in much of the cover art and half life world (graffiti, etc).
It’s very likely that you’ve stumbled upon the origins of it.
Its quite obviously the greek letter Lamba, used in Science and Mathematics… But there is a similarity to that picture yes, but you could essentially replace the crowbar with a long dildo and see the same results!
I really wouldn’t see the same results myself…
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You suck at firsts
That’s funny. So lambda, the SI for “half-life” has absolutely nothing to do with the logo.. mere coincidence…
Technically, lambda is not the SI for “half-life” but the decay constant of the material. The half life is a time, denoted by T(1/2).
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hope you know he intended it as a joke, i’m sure he his fully aware of the lambda sign inferred from his comment
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Stop taking yourself so seriously.
you’re retarded. take a joke.
I thought you might like this article (evolution of PC first person shooters):
http://www.lowfps.com/evolution-of-first-person-shooters-on-pc
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Considering the name of the game is “Half-Life”, I think it is safe to assume that the lambda being referred to is not linked to frequency, but to the decay constant used to calculate the time it takes for a radioactive to decay by 50%, aka the “half-life”. It’s physics, not ‘metaphysics’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_life
One of the oldest vidya mindfucks, nice picture though.
lots of talking, not a lot of thinking.
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Dude..Its a JOKE…Geezus people, laugh, have some fun, don’t take things so dang seriously!
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Half life is the time in which n/2 of the original amout of atoms react in the reaction
half life=.693/lambda
And here I thought it was inspired by this
http://www.vector-logos.com/logo-en-4552.html
Its a great idea as to where the logo derived from.
However, noticed in the game he holds it the opposite way around? thats the only thing i have against the idea.
i thought that it was a lambda representing the radioactive decay constant with which the half-life of a radioactive isotope is derived…oh wait…that was a humor joke. i see. very funny.
It would cause problems for you at the next United Bigots of America convention.
What the fuck, that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen.
you should feel bad for this.
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It’s the greek symbol, lambda?
Hello, anyone?
Now imagine Deranged saying that in a Doctor Evil voice
I thought the Half Life logo was the actual scientific half life logo for radiation decay or some$%&£ like that
It would cause problems for you at the next United Bigots of America convention.
Or a similarly awesome but unexpected game. That would be cool, too.
Idiots… Its Lambda, the greek letter. And why the crappy paint drawing if you could have used any other program to do it better
Never ceases to amaze me how people ruin good ideas with bad presentation. Learn to use Curves and Lines in MS Paint
The lambda is used to represent the half-life of an element. Kinda like the $ is used to represent money.
good
A great game none-the-less,regardless of how the logo was derived.