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The title is basically nonsense. They're talking about the black hole in that movie.
by bachmeier 2y ago
The title is basically nonsense. They're talking about the black hole in that movie.
- kjrfghslkdjfl 2y agoWhat did you expect from the title? That they used Einstein's equations to render the actors? Of course it's the black hole.
- didgeoridoo 2y agoSince the digital movie camera used to film the actors relies on the photoelectric effect to turn light into pixel data, you could say Einstein’s equations were used for the live-action portion too!
- deep_merge 2y agoUm actually… Chris Nolan doesn’t shoot digital. His more recent pictures (Interstellar included) are shot on a mixture of 35mm, 70mm and IMAX 70mm (!)
- didgeoridoo 2y agoThe light-sensitive chemicals in film also rely on the photoelectric effect! YOU CAN’T ESCAPE EINSTEIN, NOLAN.
- mapimopi 2y agoWhat's the difference between 70mm and IMAX 70mm? Is it just the aspect ratio (2.20:1 vs 1.43:1)?
- deep_merge 2y agoYes, it’s an even larger format than traditional 70mm. The cells are physically larger. Anecdote: Nolan worked with Kodak to invent black & white IMAX film for Oppenheimer. https://www.kodak.com/en/motion/blog-post/oppenheimer/ https://www.kodak.com/en/motion/blog-post/oppenheimer/
- bradgranath 2y agoThe film is run through the camera & projector sideways, allowing for a larger frame to be laid down on the same stock. https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.183/gkz.aeb.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/IMAX-70mm-35mm-comparison.png https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.183/gkz.aeb.myftpuplo...
- antegamisou 2y agoAnd it's not even Einstein's equations The geodesic equations are not Einstein's equations. The code for Interstellar only had to ray trace on a fixed analytical background spacetime (Kerr metric), rather than solve partial differential equations for the metric itself. https://x.com/duetosymmetry/status/1020714102354776064 https://x.com/duetosymmetry/status/1020714102354776064