The Making of 'Star Wars,' 1977: Amazing photos of ILM filming Death Star explosions

[Jorpho]

I couldn’t quite recall where I heard the supposedly official name, but I found it: “greebles”.

A most excellent Star Wars Millenium Falcon cake

Nerdy fun fact: all those details — the panels and access hatches and etc. — are called greebles (and the act of creating them greebling). The term originated with the designers for Star Wars, so it’s extra-appropriate here, but is used generally in computer graphics and in Lego modeling (and I assume elsewhere) for all those cool looking details which look meaningful and complex and cool but you haven’t really mapped to function.