From Simulation to Visualization:
Astrophysics Goes Hollywood
This talk discusses the transformation of research level astronomy simulations into
visualizations suitable for the public. It was presented at the Space Telescope Science
Institute on January 17, 2002.
Powerpoint File
Movies
The movies below were used in the talk. Most of them were started from within the
Powerpoint presentation. However, Powerpoint is a resource hog, and one will often
get poor playback of movies within a Powerpoint presentation. In such cases, one has
to pause the presentation and play the movie in a separate window. In particular,
the movies labelled "Huge" below could not be played within Powerpoint 2000 under
Windows 2000 Professional on a 850 MHz laptop with a GeForce2Go video chip.
Copyright and Credits: Most of these movies do not belong to me. I am using
them only under "fair use" and you should, too. Those marked "FJS" are mine, and you
can contact me at summers@stsci.edu if you
want to use them.
Small Movies (up to 1 MB each)
- Galaxy collision - Josh Barnes - seq2_4.mpg (384 kb)
Medium-sized Movies (1 MB to 3 MB each)
- Earth orbiting Sun, full out - FJS - full_out.avi (2252 kb)
- Earth orbiting Sun, colored, lit spheres - FJS - yellow_blue.avi (1728 kb)
- Earth orbiting Sun, flat shaded spheres - FJS - grey.avi (1632 kb)
- Earth orbiting Sun, points - FJS - points.avi (1452 kb)
- Globular cluster done with standard CG tools - cluster.mpg (1416 kb)
- Galaxy collision done with Maya gravity module - newMovie.mpg (3072 kb)
- Galaxy collision, choreography test YZ projection - FJS - t4_x_yz.mpg (1764 kb)
- Galaxy collision, choreography test XZ projection - FJS - t4_y_xz.mpg (1776 kb)
- Galaxy collision, choreography test XY projection - FJS - t4_z_xy.mpg (1800 kb)
- Neutron star head-on collision - Max Ruffert - ruffert_grbc.mpg (3156 kb)
Big Movies (3 MB to 10 MB each)
Huge Movies (more than 10 MB each)
Page last updated on: April 8, 2002