Hubble: Galaxies Across Space and Time

This talk presents the IMAX short film "Hubble: Galaxies Across Space and Time". This film was created by a group of about 10 people in the Office of Public Outreach at the Space Telescope Science Institute during the fall/winter 2003/2004. I directed the film and did most of the 3D visualization. This talk provides a look into how we made the film with a small staff, a short schedule, and an extremely limited budget.

Versions

I often give the same talk several times, updating and improving (?) the talk each time. When there are siginificant changes between versions, I will post both versions and you can choose whichever version works best for you.

STScI Lunchtime Talk - December 16, 2003

This is the first version of this talk. It was presented to the general staff of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) as part of the Science Division's "Popular Talks for Everyone at the Institute" series.

Since I committed to this talk well before the IMAX film was finished, I called it "Cosmic Cruising: 3D Visualizations of Large Scale Structure and GOODS". By the time I gave this talk, the film frames had been finished, but the soundtrack and narration were not yet complete.

STScI Staff IMAX Preview - March 31, 2004

This talk was given in the IMAX theater at the Maryland Science Center for the STScI Staff preview of the film. It is basically a shortened version of the above talk, but with some improvements in several of the slides. As introductory material (and because the film is only 3 minutes long), we also showed some cool visuals from the Astrophysics Visualization Lab at STScI.

I can not post the IMAX film on the web, but I have a 640x480 pixel version (which has only 1.3% of the pixels in the IMAX version) posted at the very bottom of this web page.

Page last updated on: June 24, 2004