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This blog post describes the stuff Interstellar mostly gets right, and the big thing it's lacking (a brightness asymmetry from the rotation of the accretion dis
by jessriedel 8y ago
This blog post describes the stuff Interstellar mostly gets right, and the big thing it's lacking (a brightness asymmetry from the rotation of the accretion disk).
http://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/2017/03/28/imaging-black-holes/ http://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/2017/03/28/imagin...
- java-man 8y agoIf I recall this correctly, the movie intentionally simplified the rendering of the black hole (by eliminating the Doppler shift) to make it more visually appealing. Pity, really. Then again, there were other things that made no sense in the movie...
- zeristor 8y agoNASA hq launching a rocket from the next door room, was my warning. Danny Boyle was confident he had “done SciFi” with Sunshine, perhaps Christopher Nolan just wanted to tick that box too. Where Kubrick led others followed; Ridley Scott was doing great to Bladerunner...
- TheHypnotist 8y agoSince we're on it, there's actually a book about the science of interstellar. https://www.amazon.com/Science-Interstellar-Kip-Thorne/dp/0393351378 https://www.amazon.com/Science-Interstellar-Kip-Thorne/dp/03...
- Insanity 8y agoThe author (Thorne) was actually a producer for the movie, as well as a being a physics professor.
- thatcherc 8y agoSide note - there's a really neat write-up by someone who realistically rendered a rotating black hole in 1979, partly by computer and partly by hand [0]. He goes through all the important visual effects, like GR ray tracing, disk brightness, and Doppler shift. The final image is pretty cool. [0] - https://blogs.futura-sciences.com/e-luminet/2015/02/18/black-hole-imaging-2-heads-tails/ https://blogs.futura-sciences.com/e-luminet/2015/02/18/black...