TITLE: Contact(revisited), The transport system
NAME: Luis Roman Ju_rez Sandoval
COUNTRY: Mexico
EMAIL: H_string@yahoo.com.mx
TOPIC: Journey
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: contactr.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Blender 2.25

TOOLS USED: 
    Adobe Premier 6.0, Avi2mpg converter and Terragen

CREATION TIME: 
    20 days

HARDWARE USED: 
    800 MHz Pentium III

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 


This animation shows explicitly a reconstruction of the giant machine described
in 
Carl Sagan's Contact the book, also shown in the movie, in which the three
outer
concentric rings rotate in a very complex way and very fast so the machine can
achieve 
the energy necessary to produce a kind of essential black hole (a black hole of

quantum dimensions) which then by quantum effects, explicitly by Cassimir
effect, 
opens the troath of it using negative energy to transform the black hole into
a gravitationaly stable wormhole of macroscopic dimensions in the way that a
traveller
can pass trough it and reach the corners of the universe.

A pod or formally the IPV (Inter Planetary Vehicle) is dropped inside the rings
in what
seems to be a very risky way, but it isn't so because everything is calculated,
once the
pod has arrived at the very center of the whole thing, it enters the wormhole
and the 
journey begins. 

Because the good things must come to an end, the ride ends when the pod emerges
from the
wormhole to be catched by a giant net and finally be damped by the collision
with water.

Well, enough of scientific facts, better enjoy the movie.      


VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 
    Windows Media Player for Windows 95/NT works well

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 


The principal element is of course the machine which was fully modeled in
Blender with
help of some images taken from the web page of the movie. How crazy it sounds
the first
objects modeled where the rings with movement included, after many tryings,
because I 
wanted to be sure that they were functioning perfectly. Then the machine was
finished 
around the rings, done this I focused on the pod which is constitued by a sphere
embeded
in a structured dodecahedron, the movement of this one was a physicist very
simple task
(of kinematics),I associated to it the curve of behavior of a body in free fall
taking 
account that the height of the crane from which the pod is released is of 380 m

it is 1246.71 ft.

The lanscape shown in the first seconds of the animation was done with Terragen
and then
converted to a .Blend file by using the Ter2Blend plugin.

The whole secuence was completed in Adobe Premier where the titles where
inserted, and 
finally the .mpg file was obtained using the avi2mpg1 converter.      





