Motion Graphics & Video

Cassini Probe Deployment
Nathan A. Ebanks
This space science visualization depicts NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft with its attached Huygens probe leaving the Earth, arriving at the planetary destination, and deploying the probe to the surface. The actual NASA destination for the Huygens probe is Titan, a moon of Saturn. The probe is scheduled to arrive in July of 2004.
Format: Quicktime
Contact: nathan at stratosdigital.com

The Wonder of Space
Tiyo Hallock
"I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple."- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
This piece stems from my curiosity and amazement of the universe around me. I believe that my purpose in life is directly tied with this huge machine which is our universe. I am in awe every time I look up at the stars, thinking this is bigger than my vision, this is bigger than my dreams. I stayed up 3 days making this and I have never felt more inspired, the shapes, the textures, came together with such ease I felt as if I had tapped into some well of energy. I hope people can feel that energy when they view this.
Format: Quicktime
Contact: thallock at topfloorstudio.com

Life
Robert Ramirez
This piece looks at the origin of life on earth as the result of two scientific theories. One, that life was brought to earth by a collision with a comet, and two, that life sprang up deep in the abyss of the ocean where the intense heat from the "smokers" or undersea vents acted as the catalyst. This is the first part of the fourth segment of a larger piece entitled "The Ouroborus" which is a history of the universe that focuses on the dynamic and chaotic properties of the cycles of the universe. This final story will not be told in the traditional linear fashion of film and video. These images will be digitally cued, looped, and processed based on analog audio input signals, and MIDI data, from a live musical performance. The music will serve as the dialog of the story. In this way the dynamic nature of the live performance will be reflected visually and will mimic the dynamic, cyclical and non-linear nature of the universe. This piece will be finished and ready for performance the first week of May of this year.
Format: Quicktime

4:4 Spring
Lisa Shenouda
This is the first installment of a video art series that functions as a meditative journey into the four seasons: winter, spring, summer, and autumn. Each season is represented with different colors, music, and spatial textures. The video has an intentionally rough pixelated image quality so as to be effective in various viewing formats - from a small TV screen to a large theatre screen - without any of the usual compromises.
Format: Quicktime
Contact: lisa at dzero.org

Three Comments on the Sciences, with Illustrations
Joe Bowers
Three contrasting epigrams from disagreeing philosophies of science are presented within a system that allows for the composition of three simple, orthogonal dynamics. The result of both compositions is a tangled mess.
Format: Flash
Contact: joseph at culturematic.net

Astrolabe
Charles P. Morgan
This is an artistic rendering of an antique astrolabe.
Format: Flash
Contact: october_reasons at hotmail.com

Hybrid Cellular Pattern Growth Generator (H.C.P.G.G.)
Robert Goerke
The H.C.P.G.G. imitates the reaction-diffusion patterns found in nature through the use of a computer-based system called cellular automata (CA). The CA grows one line at a time, with each new line being generated by a set of simple rules. As the number of lines grows larger, the simple rules begin to yield increasing complex results and patterns begin to emerge. This piece was inspired by Steven Wolfram's recent exploration of cellular automata, but I wanted to take the visual exploration of the phenomena a step further, using not just little black boxes but other shapes and colors to create texture and explore the effect of rhythm and repetition making the output seem more distinctly organic.
Format: Flash

Rotary Project
Chris Jackson
This work was created as part of a school project. It was designed for an interactive kiosk aimed at educating the user. I’m a student at UNCA in the Multimedia Arts and Science department. I’ve been doing digital imaging since 1996, mostly Photoshop and Bryce 3D at that time. I’ve moved on and branched out to Flash, Director, Maya, Fireworks, and Illustrator. I’ve also sharpened my skills at Photoshop and learned some video editing software. I’m skilled at using Adobe Premier and After Effects. I am proficient in HTML, DHTML, Java, JavaScript, and am in the process of learning ASP, Visual Basic, and Lingo.
Format: Flash
Contact: chris at devilmotorsports.com

The Orrery
Mark Phillips
/Or"re*ry/ n.; pl. Orreries.
[So named in honor of Charles Boyle, Earl of Orrery.]
An apparatus which illustrates, by the revolution of balls moved by wheelwork, the relative size, periodic motions, positions, orbits, etc., of bodies in the solar system.

The Orrery is an interactive Solar System simulator. Choose a time, a place, and what you want to look at, and generate your own pictures.
Format: Geomview, Tcl, Perl, and HTML
Contact: mbp at geomtech.com

GEECO System: Cryogenics Training Visualizations
Jennifer Seevinck
Artists and researchers from the Old Dominion University’s enterprise center, the Virginia Modeling Analysis & Simulation Center (VMASC), developed computer-based training aids to enhance instruction of the Cryogenics Equipment Technician Course. This grant is funded by the US Navy’s Center for Naval Engineering for the Cryogenics School House Center for Naval Engineering in Portsmouth, Virginia. The training aids consist of 2D computer graphics and 3D visualizations for the GEECO J68114 High Pressure Oxygen/Nitrogen Producer System. An overall schematic becomes the interactive interface from which component 3D visualizations may be selected for viewing. The material is designed to support live classroom lecture instruction by a course instructor. The training aids enhance the ability of the instructor to explain the function and operation of very complex devices and processes by showing animated graphics of the devices and processes. The ultimate purpose of the training aids is to reduce the amount of class time required to teach these difficult topics and to enhance the student’s understanding by creating a conceptual picture.
Format: Flash
Contact: jseevinc at odu.edu

Space Movie
Brian Ussery
Brian Ussery is a part time resident of Henderson County North Carolina and Brand Engineer dba beussery imagery co. Brian designs and produces high end marketing collateral used by professional corporations, organizations and individuals worldwide.
Format: Quicktime
Contact: beu at beussery.com

The Osprey Project
David Bourne
Video Sculpture
Format: tree of heaven, oriental bittersweet, english ivy, grass, plexiglass, plywood, trash can lid, hardware, cloth, LCD TV, DVD, HTML, Quicktime
Contact: david at bournemedia.com

Particles (Series)
Kristi Pfeffer
This series is a study of bubble chamber particle trails. Those images reveal particulars from a rain of cosmic particles. To create these, I spent a day snapping and throwing paint around, and come back later to pick out the most telling compositions.
Format: Digital image, painting
Contact: kristi at larkbooks.com

Stars
Nicole Tuggle
This piece is a reflection upon the influence--spiritual, intellectual and physical--that astronomy has on Man. The saw blade suggests both the action of human thought process and the sense of movement and flux of stars during the Earth's rotation.
Format: digital image, metal tile, wooden box, anatomical and astonomy illustrations, found writing, paper, metal screen, beeswax, saw blade
Contact: nicole at sigilation.com