The best place to
start using the cd is in the linked quicktime movies. I suggest
viewing movies 21, 22, 23, & 24, as they are the same scene
done first with no relativistic effects, then each important effect
is added serially.
Students may also
find movies 3 & 5, the lampost scenes, compelling in their
simplicity.
Original concept
and supercomputer animation by Antony Searle & Craig Savage,
Australian National University.
This set of digitized movies
has been made small enough to fit on a single CD. At this size,
the movies should run well from most CD drives. A 4 CD set of
the same movies, but much larger, is also available.
The movies are in Quicktime
format. To obtain the latest Quicktime plug-in for your browser,
go to http://www.apple.com
Steve Kliewer, a high school
teacher and participant in SCIPP's Spring Seminar for High School
Teachers, was the first in our UCSC group to obtain and try to
understand the video material from Australia. Included here is
an html version of a PowerPoint presentation prepared by Steve.
Navigate using the buttons on the far right of the window. Some
slides were edited by Eric for use in html.
Narration scripts were prepared
to adhere conceptually as closely as possible to Craig Savage's
original narrative, but were modified for time (in some cases
extensively). Individual narrators each made important script
contributions on their respective segments.
Narrators
:
Jackie Pizutti : 3, 7, 12, 17&18, 23, 25
Manon Geelen : 4, 9, 10, 14, 21, 24, 27
Leo Florendo : 1, 5, 8, 13, 16, 19
Andrew Stokes
Truitt : 2,
6, 11, 15
Daniel Garcia : 22, 26
Eric Muhs : 4
Technical notes: This work was performed on a Macintosh
G3 266 MHz all-in-one desktop computer equipped with an Apple
AV card, using Adobe Premiere 5.0. Quicktime movies were made
large for presentation purposes, but run at 15 frames per second
for slower computers, and to conserve space. On some of the videos,
flickering is apparent : this is a scanning rate problem which
occurs when the video is digitized. The original supercomputer
work, and the video
available from Craig Savage, while unnarrated is free from
this problem.
Digitization from
VHS videotape, narration preparation and recording, cover art,
background music and packaging by Eric Muhs, Shorewood High School,
Shoreline, Wa.
ericmuhs@yahoo.com
(206) 528-0388
837 NE 58th St., Seattle,
Wa. 98105
This project was prepared
during the summer of 2000, under the auspices of the Research
Experience for Teachers program adminstered by the Santa Cruz
Institute for Particle Physics, at the University of California
at Santa Cruz.
early development
: Steve Kliewer
Invaluable support:
Dr. Hartmut Sadrozinski
Comments & advice
: Dr. Terry Shalk, Dr. David Dorfan
Revision History
:
January 2001
added frames &
side menu to movie viewer for easier navigation between movies
added links from scripts
to movies to improve navigation
added graphic to first
page.
February 2001
After using the cd
with my physics classes, I added extensive comments to many of
the movie pages to address questions and issues not covered in
the script. I also cleaned up the Powerpoint presentation, removing
some graphics which, because they were animations in the original,
did not import into html properly. I made other navigation improvements,
corrected a misplaced movie (19, I think), rearranged some things
on the title page to lead users into the linked movie set a little
better, and added a description of the graphic on the title page.
March 2001
Replaced title page
picture with street scene with speed limit sign. Added description
to each movie for easier navigation & identification.