Link: The Formation of Stars + Animation

If you're interested in Space read this:

"The Formation of Stars and Brown Dwarfs and the Truncation of Protoplanetary Discs in a Star Cluster

Matthew R. Bate, Ian A. Bonnell, and Volker Bromm

The calculation models the collapse and fragmentation of a molecular cloud with a mass 50 times that of our Sun. The cloud is initially 1.2 light-years (9.5 million million kilometres) in diameter, with a temperature of 10 Kelvin (-263 degrees Celsius). The cloud collapses under its own weight and very soon stars start to form. Surrounding some of these stars are swirling discs of gas which may go on later to form planetary systems like our own Solar System.

The calculation took approximately 100,000 CPU hours running on up to 64 processors on the UKAFF supercomputer. In terms of arithmetic operations, the calculation required approximately 1016 FLOPS (i.e. 10 million billion arithmetic operations).

Movie showing the full evolution of the system. Two versions, 94 seconds and 163 seconds, the latter of which shows the star formation sequence twice." (2 Formats .AVI and Quicktime)

Available formats for 94 second animation:
AVI for Powerpoint, Windows or Unix (56MB, medium quality)
AVI for Powerpoint, Windows or Unix (172MB, high quality)
Quicktime for Windows or Unix (321MB)

Available formats for 163 second animation:
AVI for Powerpoint, Windows or Unix (94MB, medium quality)
AVI for Powerpoint, Windows or Unix (288MB, high quality)
Quicktime for Windows or Unix, detail of star formation shown twice (565MB)

~ Raener

Site: Fat-Pie.com

Seen, heard or wanted to see Salad Fingers? I'm sure you know of it/him at least. David Firth (the creator of Salad Fingers featured on the right) is the genius behind it all, well, with a bit of help from his friends, has his own site called Fat-Pie. It shows all his other works including: Animations (labeled 'Cartoons'), Claymations, Songs, Music Videos and some Devvo video footage and more.

You'll find much of his other animations just as good as the Salad Finger series: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] (Check Fat-Pie for newer episodes). My favourite animations are infact the Spoilsbury Toast Boy flicks 1 to 3 and also Ptikobj 1 & 2. Firth also has great skill using clay to make stop-frame animation and hosts them on his claymation page. He comes up with several interesting "storyboards", if you think they have any sense in them and all can be watched if you have Macromedia Flash Player installed. (Recommended version 8.0 +)

~ Raener

New Signature, 'Raener'

I've been recently working on creating a new signature to use along side my alias, Raener. After a few hours of playing around in Adobe Photoshop CS2 I came up with this as the end result:


Note the Final Fantasy IX characters in the background and the text/shapes behind the dominant 'Raener' reading 'Raener' aswell.
I'm pretty satisfied with it and with the fact it was the first thing I created using my new CS2 copy.

~ Raener

Sigur Rós - Live at the Hammersmith Apollo

On the 28th of March '06 I went to see a band called 'Sigur Rós' with a couple of my friends, they were AMAZING! If you haven't ever heard of them click here to check out their site. You'll find latest news, tour details, media and external links that can lead you to other domains out there with similar music. ..with cascades of moaning, bowed guitars colliding with low-end keyboards while the lovely, alien-registered vocals of singer Jónsi float on top.. [1]

Truly one of the best experience of my entier life, beating all other bands i've seen live by a mile! Their presentation (that took place at the Hammersmith Apollo, London, UK) was not only music but image seamlessly integrated into one mind blowing production! It consisted of interesting lighting effects, moving image and still image media projection. [1] [2] [3] [4]

The night out was completely worth it only coming to a total of 30 GBP per ticket with maybe 3 -4 quid on top for beer and such per person. As we arrived we found out that a supporting band would be playing (we had no idea of this, that little extra run for our money was also good) and the pretty much instantly turned me into a fan with their small 4 piece line up. Much like Sigur Rós, Amiina used similar techniques to achieve this magical Icelandic, possibly alien-like sound. The main three differences were 1) The sex of the band was completely female the opposite of Sigur Rós. 2) Instead of the frontman Jónsi with his guitar and bow, Amiina had the ol' saw and bow creating very beautiful melodic sounds. 3) Amiina used an Apple Mac to aid with some of the computer generated backing tracks that they would have made themselves when producing their EP.

If you have heard of the great Sigur Rós then you will know they have had their latest album out for a couple of months named 'Takk...' translated to English 'Thankyou...' Like all artists with a few albums, some argue one is better than the others etc, but personally being a big fan, I like them all. I don't they vary much between each album but you can hear subtle differences that make each one unique. They are all my favourites, but I'd advise you to start off with 'Agaetis Byrjun' their 1999 album.

For now all I can say is to check out this breath taking, goosebump giving, heart pounding, vein loosening, dreamlike feeling and most of all trippy Icelandic band, 'Sigur Rós'

~ Raener

R(_)MOL

Welcome to RUMOL ; Raener's Underpinning Meaning Of Life!

Things to know:

• This is my personal blog
  
• I use it to forward links, sites and stuff that interests me to the internet people (Art: Drawing, Painting, CGI, .. Music: New Artists, New Albums, Music I've Found, My Tunes .. Sites: Animation, Design, Humor, Cool, Informative ..)
  
• Any events that I have attended will be reviewed (Concerts, Theatrical Productions, Exhibitions, Clubs ..)
  
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~ Raener