Christmas on Saturn
Simulation and Animation with pen and ink drawings, dimensions variable, 2019
A series of stills from my animation and simulation in #Unity3d with sounds from Saturn @nasa @nasajpl and based on my book of #drawings #Hands and #solids. Also inspired by an image a friend sent me from Denmark.
What is special about a simulation is that it's never the same unlike a movie, no two stills are ever the same. It's chaotic just like the universe, but there is an underlying order. Every time the simulation is run the images are different, no two stills are ever the same.
Sounds of Saturn: Hear Radio Emissions of a Planet and Its Moon
Cassini's final orbits revealed a powerful interaction between Saturn and the moon Enceladus. Scientists observed plasma waves moving in a circuit from planet to moon. The waves were converted into audio we can hear. [eerie, high-pitched sounds like wind]
Time was compressed from 16 minutes to 28.5 seconds, and wave frequency was decreased by a factor of 5. Cassini captured the data on September 2, 2017, two weeks before the spacecraft plunged into Saturn's atmosphere.
