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Oooooh! Aaaaah!
Instead of sticking his camera’s lens in the eyepiece of a powerful telescope peering into the heavens, filmmaker Thomas Vanz captured this stunning footage of a giant star going all supernova by actually pointing his camera at a glass aquarium filled with colorful inks and water.
His low-tech approach to simulating one of the universe’s most spectacular occurrences skips the computer graphics and is better for it. Even the sounds Vanz used in his short film, Novae, all come from pre-recorded sources.
Article: http://sploid.gizmodo.com/stunning-supernova-footage-isnt-what-it-seems-1788952975
Awesome movie: https://vimeo.com/189562895 (3 min, 10 sec)
Making of (Pt 1): https://vimeo.com/185305778 (1:51)
Making of (Pt II): https://vimeo.com/189317755 (2:43)
icantevenhandlethisman
That must be at least a couple thousand if its printer ink
HumanPudding
StairwellTO
When an Aquarium uses a Supernova to create a Filmmaker, then I'll be impressed.
ghostpleb420
OH WAH AH AH AH GET DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS
MonsieurLeMoustache
EverythingIsAGovernmentConspiracy
It's not a bowl
daffodilpies
I hope the fish are ok.
Shitposting2017
Wherever that is, it looks cool
ErinInStereo
This just shows that practical effects beats up CGI any day.
hybridsm
My quest continues! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL6hp8BKB24
gewalt
except this is all cgi, and the drops of ink were nothing more than animated texture files
OthortheCute
Aquarium, ink and considerable skill at digital compositing.
JamesProton
I mean, if you want to get technical, the image would be distorted through gravitational lensing.
viabledreams
The Tree of Life.
akaZireael
Yessssss.
Sfx6C
I read that first line as "peeing into the heavens"
Madarashi
What program is that, that they use???? I make videos and that program seems awesome!
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wanderwaffle
mbbqqw
Filmmakers are lying. I'm shocked
Bladeroller
Watch The Fountain by Darren Aronofsky. This kind of technique was used a lot to great effect.
probablyandrew
Imagine if the artist had used Champagne instead of water, that would be one hell of a champagne supernova.
ashipthatshipsshippingships
Dad pls
AuntAcid
SOME DAY YOU WILL FIND ME
hockeyham
In the sky.
killinitinusersub
Blackhole at the end doesnt make sense. The surrounding gas should appear to be frozen in time.
rylas
I think it's meant to mimic the one from Interstellar. Which was mathematically as accurate as could be. So, I'd give it a pass.
JamesProton
Not to mention that gas doesn't look like this, most every picture we see is falsely colored to enhance the nebulae structures
JamesProton
I mean, if you want to be technical, the image would be distorted through gravitational lensing.
killinitinusersub
That effect is caused by obstructions with gravity. This is a first person view with no gravitational obstructions.
JamesProton
The black hole is the gravitational obstruction. Also, anything is a first-person view for astronomy
MattDude
This technique reminds me of the specially lighted algae used in the opening credits of "Superman" from 1978.
PianoMan2112
...wut?
cr4sh0verride
I object to the word "simulating". He's creating a visual effect (quite well, btw). I'm also not convinced there's no digital compositing.
atlugar
Look at the Vimeo 'making of' links. Lots of cgi post processing. Well done, nonetheless.
hadji
I'm convinced that there has been significant post processing.
equityforpunks
Making of indeed is full of digital composition, color grading, etc. So basically it's cleverly created base material for composition CGI
KixPanganiban
This. He didn't just point his camera and got that sweet video. Instead of using CGI, he used ink blots as base to compose a video. 1/2
KixPanganiban
He cleverly composed footage of ink blots, added flares, and did a lot of touch up to get the final result. See https://vimeo.com/185305778
Bobwithglasses
You can't just find a supernova by looking through a telescope. Stars don't explode all wily nily.
Thanshin
You can, if you point it towards a very far away aquarium
LosPer
If you have a computer driven telescope that takes thousands of pictures of different galaxies, you absolutely can...and we have
elfensky
Depends on point of reference. (1/2)
HighSlayerRalton
Ha! Willy...
elfensky
(3/2) The trick is knowing where to look :P
ireadyouremailz
We are limited to our observable universe and our stone age technology though.
akom
(1½)
Agent
Not unless you override stargate protocols and connect to another gate where the wormhole passes through the sun. Thanks Carter.
aboxacaraflatafan
https://media.tenor.co/images/73c929ec4384d45d8ffcaf6e8da8b3d8/raw
StormSaxon
Or the Q are have a civil war.
aboxacaraflatafan
The pedant in me has to remind you that she blew up the sun with a gate connected to a black hole. Your example caused a shift to infrared.
shhep
Exactly! So much bullshit under your comment. Supernovas explode once per 100 years per galaxy. Explosion lasts ~2 weeks (not 100000 years)
shhep
and it wouldn't look like that. Close supernova would look like a star size of moon and brighter. In fact ~3000 years ago, one did.
troublecliff
There's a star not too far from us that's supposed to go supernova any time in the next couple centuries. It will shine almost as 1/2
troublecliff
As the moon!
Hulkhulkthehulkinghulk
Almost as as the moon
troublecliff
Haha almost as bright, oops...
elfensky
(2/2) As the universe is infinite, there's an infinite amount of stars, an infinite amount of which are exploding.
Woppledorf
Holy crap who have you been listening to?
SherMattLockSmith
But we can only see what is within the Hubble Sphere, not infinitely.
GlitterInTheDarkNearTheTannhauserGate
Our instruments can only see a very tiny fraction of stars, and given the event horizon, its far from infinity
mearas
Universe being infinite does not equal infinite ammount of stars.
acertainjenesaisquoi
In fact you, if you generalise hard enough there's no stars whatsoever. Finite matter/infinite space equivalent to zero density=emoty.
MurrToTheMurr
Um.. yes it does. Lets say the average distance between each star is x. Infinity / x is still infinity.
shhep
And if I mount a pocket flashlight to my skateboard, I'll be moving with speed of light in 2 weeks, right?
LHC20
With infinte matter sure, but exactly this is the limiting factor... Space may be infinite, matter certainly not.
elfensky
Hmm... Point. Are there any papers on it? I kind of assumed that since the universe is, matter is as well, which is retrospect does sound...
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MurrToTheMurr
Really? So, a finite amount of mass is just expanding infinitely? Cool!