If you think the above video is some sort of trippy adaptation of Van Gogh’s classic “Starry Night,” you wouldn’t be the first. Created by NASA’s ECCO2 project, which seeks to estimate the circulation and conditions of the world’s oceans, the animation consists of a portrayal of the surface currents that happened around the globe between June of 2005 and December 2007. Called “Perpetual Ocean,” it displays the beauty of our planet in way that we don’t usually get to see.
ECCO2 is actually a computational model that NASA researchers are using to allow studies to be done on carbon and heat transfer from small bodies of water, such as rivers, that feed into the ocean. While the simulation is actually able to present data of water flows happening at all depths, only the surface currents are represented in this piece.
What’s interesting about this video is that it was a last minute “throw-away” piece that was done by a two-man animation team for the SIGGRAPH 2011 computer animation festival. Unfortunately, the piece was not accepted since it was so last minute, which is probably a good thing as it was bound to win an award of some sort. Not bad for a last minute effort.
In total, five different people worked on the project: Greg Shirah and Horace Mitchell as the animators, Victoria Weeks as the video editor and then Hong Zhang and Dimitis Menemenlis serving as science advisers. The team worked together to first identify the current patterns, then supported Shirah and Mitchell as they added the white animations piece to represent the different movements of the water on the planet. Their work definitely payed off as the final product shows the beauty of science at work.
Read more at the Perpetual Ocean NASA page.
Source: http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/nasa-perpetual-ocean-van-gogh-20120327/
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