#Interstellar is great movie because it pushed people to revisit theoretical physics and metaphysics. At same time it also helped scientific community. Rendering Blackhole with CGI is one such thing which was done at painstaking accuracy conforming to the equations. No one is sure about how it would appear, but when the algorithms were fed into CGI, the thing that came really blew everyones mind. Heres the excerpt from wiki... In creating the wormhole and a supermassive rotating black hole, which as opposed to a non-rotating black hole possesses an ergosphere, Dr. Thorne collaborated with visual effect supervisor Paul Franklin and a team of 30 computer effects artists at Double Negative. Thorne would provide pages of deeply sourced theoretical equations to the artists, who then wrote new CGI rendering software based on these equations to create accurate computer simulations of the gravitational lensing caused by these phenomena. Some individual frames took up to 100 hours to render, and ultimately resulted in 800 terabytes of data. The resulting visual effect provided Dr. Thorne with new insight into the effects of gravitational lensing and accretion disks surrounding black holes, and will lead to the creation of two scientific papers; one for the astrophysics community and one for the computer graphics community. Must read: wired/2014/10/astrophysics-interstellar-black-hole/
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 03:51:00 +0000
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