Novae, by Thomas VanzĪ supernova can form a black hole by compressing a star’s core to an infinitesimally minuscule size, creating a gravitational field so intense that it devours light itself.
His behind-the-scenes shorts detailing the making of Novae are at least as entertaining as the final film itself.
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Working for months in his garage in Paris, he filmed inks billowing through a water-filled fish tank, later using computer software to stitch and process the raw footage into his dramatic vision of stellar death. Like a latter-day William Blake-the English poet and painter who famously mused about seeing “a world in a grain of sand” and “a heaven in a wild flower”-Vanz envisioned a supernova in drops of colored ink. The overall winner is Novae, filmmaker Thomas Vanz’s breathtakingly beautiful visualization of a giant star’s explosive death by supernova and subsequent transformation into a black hole.
Now, in partnership with Scientific American and Nature (as well as with several scientific institutions), Quantum Shorts 2016 has revealed this year’s first- and second-place winners as selected by a six-member panel of expert judges as well as a “people’s choice” winner selected via public online polling. The key requirement? Each entry must take no more than five minutes to watch or read.įor 2016 the contest focused on film and drew more than 200 entries, with 10 finalists selected. The contest alternates each year between calls for films or short stories that explore the ramifications of quantum mechanics. For the past five years the Quantum Shorts initiative from the Center for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore has inspired artists and writers from around the world to try their hand at a unique kind of scientific storytelling.
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