Diamond jewelery
A quick illustration of the tetrahedral structure of diamond, MADE OUT OF DIAMOND. Mostly as a test for developing some new methods for getting nice dispersion/refraction effects. See our illustration on Flickr
Just for fun
3D printed Solar Orbiter
Our 3D printed prototype of the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, made in plastic at 1:32 scale (main body is approx 6cm cube). Lots of great detail, it’s made from the polygon model we animated in our video for ESA, which in turn was made from CAD data, with some additions (such as MLI wrapping and mirror
Fractal science
Ok, not so much of the science in this post – but still very pretty. Apophysis is a fractal flame generator, which essentially takes the usual Julia, Mandlebrot, etc. fractals, and puts them through a series of geometric transforms to create some interesting patters (for those of you obsessed with 3D: YES YOU CAN RENDER
Lego building blocks (a.k.a. DNA)
OK, well here’s something I’m sure you’ve all wanted to do – build cool sciencey stuff out of Lego….. I’m sure this isn’t the way real Lego builders do it, but should be possible to get some really cool (and really precise effects). Imagine taking any 3D model, sculpture, CAD model, and recreating a scale
Bloodhound SSC in stereoscopic 3D (via Youtube)
Ok, so Youtube has a pretty nifty stereoscopic 3D encoding option, where you can upload left-eye and right-eye videos, and users can choose their viewing mode (e.g. red/cyan, amber/blue, etc.). We thought it would be fun to see how it coped with Bloodhound SSC in 3D. Pretty well as it turns out. It looks even
Budget cuts at Bloodhound SSC
A teaser video for the imminent new Bloodhound animation….. watch this space! (Don’t worry, the project is still financially on track!) Read more about the project at Bloodhoundssc.com