EMAIL: H_string@yahoo.com.mx
NAME: Luis Roman Juárez Sandoval
TOPIC: Journey
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Contact(revisited), The transport system
COUNTRY: Mexico
WEBPAGE: 
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 
VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: Windows Media Player for Windows 95/NT works well
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.      

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.