So glad that this struck enough of a chord to have you participate,
Liz, and welcome!
Glad you will be at the SysBios show.
....I remember seeing the aurora borealis from a plane once, on a
trip across the north Atlantic- astonishing to look out the window
around 3am and see that glowing green curtain rippling across the
horizon at the same eye level as the plane (or seemed like). That
would be beautiful in an immersive environment.
And then there was aurora viewing in Alaska, a community event: the
word would go out when they'd be active, and we'd lie on the hoods of
cars and watch and listen for hours as the colors, patterns, lines,
all changed and rotated overhead. Surreal yet actual experience that
more should be able to have.
Good to have you here to help out with that.
See you Saturday-
Tory
YouTube - Dancing Aurora - HD 720p This gets the idea across. In
Alaska we never saw the giant Copyright mark though, fyi.
On Mar 24, 2010, at 4:52 PM, Elizabeth MacDonald wrote:
Wow. Thanks Victoria. I am a scientist who works in this field and
works at LANL and a lurker to this email list. But I'm inspired to
post by these beautiful images. They are familiar to me but the idea
of using them to showcase the power of the creative transformation
possible between science and art is really speaking to me. And it's
of course central to the Complex...that's why I'm on this list. :)
I'm very interested in how my field (space physics) can reach out to
more people and show them the beauty of what we study (the northern
lights, the sun, the plasma within the magnetic influence of the
Earth and Sun) through these kind of collaborations. For instance,
one could do a similar (and potentially extraordinary) project using
scientific video of the aurora. If anyone is interested in this
idea, please feel free to contact me.
I am looking forward to this weekend's activities at the Complex
even more now.
Thanks so much,
Liz MacDonald
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Victoria Hughes <[email protected]
> wrote:
Brilliant Noise
from page "...The visual noise in the images is caused by natural
and man made interferences. The white noise is cosmic rays impacting
the CCD of the satellite camera, we also see frame dropouts and one
frame taken from a ground based observatory which shows the
silhouette of a plane as it crosses the path of the observatory...
"The sound is derived from solar natural radio and controlled via
digitally sampling the intensity of the brightness of the image. The
sound is intrinsically born from the image, creating a symphony by
the Sun.
"By doing this we wanted to enhance the sun as natural phenomena.
Working with a documentary approach, we wanted to indulge in the raw
material that is our Sun, using the image to control the fluctuation
of the sound would emphasize the transitions and processes taking
place...."
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