Covalent Bond Animation ... Sortof

Attempting to visualize covalent bonding between hydrogen atoms using surfaces instead of particles. The scale is obviously not accurate, and even for the Bohr model, the paths aren't quite right. Instead of trading orbits, the electrons ride on the outer surface of the field. Looks neat, but not as informative as I'd like.

I could do this using particles and gravity effectors, but I learned from the Spinny Blob video that Lightwave doesn't interpolate particle motion along a curve very well between frames. This means that, in order to get the nice, curvy streaks you see here, I'd have to use several hundred fractional frames. Render times would go through the roof. Yet another interesting problem to work out.

Oh, this was also comped in Fusion, even though Lightwave output was in a single pass with just a color channel. Fusion's glow allowed me to exclude the red channel so that, unlike LW's glow, the electron aura doesn't bleed into the red from the protons and get all purple and ugly.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• covalent
• bond
• hydrogen
• atom
• electron
• lightwave
• bohr
• animation
• science

[XinumYothZeram]

Looks cool definitely! In what software did you do it?

[imjinc2k]

@XinumYothZeram Thanks. I used Lightwave 3D.

[partialinfinity]

heh.  boobs.

[imjinc2k]

HAHAHAHA That's right, little Johnny. Even boobs couldn't exist without covalent bonds! Boobs, testes, radar, boobs,.. you name it! Science is everywhere!

[murkinman]

hahahaha if im honest i thought it was red people having a ninja katana fight ha

[xx3LiiS3xx]

I'm pretty sure that just ate my brain.

[XinumYothZeram]

Looks cool definitely!

[MrScientist8]

Gr8 animation....:)