The World is Round/Size of the Earth

Here are a couple of computer-animated segments I made. They were to be part of RabidApe's Big Bang project.

Script, storyboard, and narration
http://www.youtube.com/RabidApe

Animation
http://www.youtube.com/BGenerous

Music
http://www.youtube.com/eddygoombah

Animation Software
http://www.blender.org

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Earth
• round
• circumference
• diameter
• radius
• horizon
• ship
• Eratosthenes
• CGI
• animation
• Blender
• BGenerous
• RabidApe
• big
• bang

[tinjan94]

we used that..technique to count out the distance to the sun and stuff like that :o is amazing you can do things like that

(sry for mah bad english)

[BGenerous]

@tinjan94 I agree, it really IS amazing! Through careful observation you can understand the universe.

[blueboy11994]

Can I use some of the animated segments in a documentary project for school? This source will be cited. Thanks

[BGenerous]

Yes you may. Good luck!

[solidysnake1]

How does he know the meeting point of two extended line will meet in the center of the earth?

[BGenerous]

solidysnake1: also, for some reason your question is marked as spam, and YouTube is ignoring my click to mark it as not spam. Seems like YouTube is always broken in some way or other. :)

[AceGuitarR7]

wot a smart sob

[Lancer6x]

this guy was fucking smart

[goodavis7]

Does the universe go by the same numbers our planet go by? Did the universe make numbers or did man?

[silentonall]

Here: 7(days) times 360 (degrees) times 3.1415926535 (PI) plus .666 gives you the diameter of the earth > 7x360xPI+.666 in MILES.

[CamronWiltshire]

Fantastic! Thank you for making this.  Very clear and excellent explanation.

[akaalper1]

Crystal clear explanation and very nice animations! 

[sownzgr8]

@ianman6 If the sun is small and close to the earth the angles will be different in two locations.

[ianman6]

@Zareste Sure, but does that include the 'round earth theory'?

[ianman6]

@sownzgr8 What are you talking about? It doesn't matter what the distance is, it's a single source of light. Therefore, it's projected illumination will hit another point in parallel. Even if he was wrong, which he isn't, why would that mean he was missing any 'marbles'? I think you need to find the ones you're missing...

[shinokiba]

Wow, I thought the Earth was flat, thanks for clearing that up for me.

[sownzgr8]

Without knowing the distance of the sun, you cannot assume the rays will hit all of the earth parallel. That was a big goof proving the guy didn't have all his marbles.

[youmustvotenato]

2 dislikes? They must still believe the earth is flat, lol.