Titan and beyond the Infinite

On January 14,2005, after a 7 years and 3.2 billion kilometer trip, Huygens an automated spacecraft hit the surface of Titan, a moon orbiting around Saturn. After its descent, the drone sent a 2 minutes 30 seconds radio message. The sound file contained the data collected by the various scientific instruments. In fact these data are a log book, the history of a fall from a never visited before place.

Nowadays these data are available as computer files from the European Space Agency. Titan, and Beyond the Infinite uses these data, and scientific tools.

To produce the video I started by programming a software which organises the data and arranges them in charts. The title is a direct reference to a 2001 : Space Odysey scene, Jupiter, and Beyond the Infinite, also known as the Stargate Sequence.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• slit
• scan
• 2001
• space
• odyssey
• huygens
• sound
• installation
• art
• data

[peggymount]

Very nice. Can I ask a little into the software which 'organises the data and arranges them into charts'?

[jpaube]

First I use Macromedia Director and some extra to parse the data and generate jpg files. The slit scan effect is done using the images in After Effects.  The sound is generated using Director and Reaktor trough midi.

[aronbjr]

I need 20 minutes of video like this, with no music please.

Why...

When I was 12 years old (I am 51 now) I saw a show on PBS that followed 3 people dealing with "death and dying" all with terminal cancer. At the “end” of the show a video was shown as an interpretation of what it was like to die and travel to the afterworld… I believe the music that was used was from Gustav Mahler's 9th symphony. To this day it is one of the most incredible shows I have ever seen - and that was 43 yrs ago!

[poorlymadeproduction]

oh god fucking damnit this video out of all the shit on youtube HAS TO BE IN 240DP?

COULD YOU PLEASE UPLOAD THIS IN HIGHER QUALITY?THAT WOULD BE MND BLOWING!

[donboy65]

Can I borrow this?

[LaurenzoMierendo]

where is titan?

[maxcoollol]

Cool! If you look at it fixedly and look away, everything looks sort of wobbly!

I may try to create a screensaver or something that tries to recreate the '2001' movie effect. It could be fun and I would learn openGL at the same time.

[blackjack1986tomas]

cool!looks like an astral travel!

[peggymount]

Thanks. I'v been messing about with trying to re-create the slit scan effect in a 3D rendering package. I can get the circular tunnel effect rather easily but the flat plane type has never looked right. Looking at your sequence I think I realise what I've been doing wrong. Thank you. You've produced a lovely piece of work.