Supercells In Polygondwanaland
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- Опубліковано 16 сер 2023
- Over the past decades I've accumulated a lot of video from my research that has never seen the light of day. I've always wanted to do a long segment highlighting different aspects of supercells in a more artful form than my typical scientific presentations, but I knew it needed a decent soundtrack, and I don't have time to create my own music right now. A year or so ago I discovered this nifty band with the funny name. Their twelfth album, Polygondwanaland, was given away by the band for free - as in free to make your own copies, etc.! A couple months ago I started thinking about whether it was legal for me to do exactly what you see here, and once I realized, well, yeah it is, well, the die was cast. However I just couldn't get myself to start the project. Yesterday... I woke up with an itchy brain... and I finally sat down and started pasting a few video segments into Final Cut Pro. I only had two segments in mind when I started this project... 99% of this is pure serendipity and wherever I was scrolling through my hundreds of old video files. The entire project was completed in about six hours time. Like the music, the video is yours to use for whatever purpose you want - no encumbrances.
If you see some weirdness in the swarms of particles and vorticity, it's because of compression artifacts from streaming. I have created a 1080p 60fps MP4 file you can download that does not have any streaming artifacts: orf.media/supercells-in-polyg...
@KingGizzardAndTheLizardWizard are: Stu Mackenzie, Ambrose Kenny-Smith, Cook Craig, Joey Walker, Lucas Harwood and Michael Cavanagh.
ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE SEEING HERE:
All of the animations are visual representations of simulated supercell thunderstorms. Simulations were run with the NCOMMAS (old stuff) and CM1 model on supercomputers, and visualizations were made, frame by frame, by visualization software. Many of the visualizations here contain very interesting science, with a few that were just mistakes that look cool. As I worked throughout the day I started playing more with filters so some of the video is highly distorted from its original form, and some of it is very clean. Definitely in the spirit of the band's own production haha....
Credits:
The National Science Foundation, funded by the taxpayers of the United States, funded much of this work, including the Blue Waters supercomputer that created many of these simulations. Some simulations were run on hardware at Central Michigan University in the mid-2000's. Leigh Orf's collaborators on the initial supercell work include Robert Wilhelmson, Cathy Finley and Bruce Lee.
All software used to create individual frames is open source software including: Vis5d, VAPOR, Paraview, ncview, and VisIt. Websites:
www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis5...
www.vapor.ucar.edu/
www.paraview.org/
cirrus.ucsd.edu/ncview/
wci.llnl.gov/simulation/compu...
The CM1 model is also open source: www2.mmm.ucar.edu/people/brya...
This video was constructed using Final Cut Pro. - Наука та технологія
Never expected a Leigh Orf and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard collab, but I'm here for it! A profound musical backdrop for contemplating the destructive beauty of these mesmerizing supercells.
We are superfluous, and in a stupor
We only fall asleep willingly
At the wheel that steers us into our future
I heard crumbling castle playing on the radio a few months back but couldnt remember the name. Probably the most unexpected place I would find it again 😂
You should use their song "Supercell" for your next project :)
This is great would love to see something like this that details cell mergers into tornadoes producing cells of various sizes.
Love seeing the details in these models. Good music choice btw, seen them live afew years back :D
Gonna see 'em for the first time in September, WOOOOOO
This is fantastic, and if the band has any sense at all, they will make this their official music video. What a freaking honor to be represented by the absolute bleeding edge of scientific exploration.
Nonagon Infinity Opens The Door
Get em!
Leigh, this is a work of scientific AND artistic genius. Thoroughly absorbing and intensely pleasurable to experience.
WOAH!! This looks amazing!!
"Choreography in Physics"
It's not turtles all the way down, it's fractals.
This is my 3rd or 4th view. I'll be back 🌪
Just what I needed to look at while listening to CEU’s today! Thanks!
I'm a mushroom, okay
I spread like lava
I rise like bread
Currency of decay
Well done Doc. Your work never ceases to amaze me.
I prefer the muddy water
Wow! This is awesome!!
Holy crap.
I know. I recommend some Gumboot Soup to clear up the matter.
I can’t decide which is more genius, the modeling seen in the video or your decision to pair this particular album with it. Absolutely brilliant.
I so very much thought about putting a little easter egg at the end of it... the first few bars of SUPERCELL with some spinning carousel action. Little known fact: In the early 2000s I submitted a video segment to SIGGRAPH called "Supercell on a Carousel" (it was not accepted) EDIT: I just dug it out of the archives and posted it :). Anyhow it's purely for licensing reasons I picked this album, I would not be able to do it with any other Gizz album... but this one worked extremely well. Lots of neat dark-side-of-the-moon-wizard-of-oz stuff going on... I see faces in reflectivity fields... give me the mushrooms, time to leave....
EF5, force of nature
Demolition, meet your maker
Throwing cities like leaves
Our mortal surface is wiped clean
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could you make a tutorial on how to do your own simulations with CM1? i don't have a supercomputer but i would love to be able to simulate my own tornadoes!
you're amazing. This stuff still blows my mind. in chapter 14 of the video...does this represent a Hook echo ?
I don't see chapters in my view, just give me the time in MM:SS
Amazing I hope to do this someday although I have already done it in my living room!!
Hope you don't let the world crush you
For it is beautiful out there and there's a lot to see
Moving electrical charge and in great detail, fantastic and brilliant. And especially when the Birkeland Current is in PDM 3, arc mode- "...An electric vacuum cleaner spins by way of an electric motor and it is its high spin rate that creates low air pressure and so making the cleaner suck and likewise, it’s not the Low pressure creating the movement through the atmosphere. But instead, its the spinning charge through the atmosphere that is creating the low pressure..."- Electric Weather Mechanics
It's a different kind of cuttlefish
Swing and a miss
Dancing with my eyes and lips
Can't move my hips
Keep my mind distracted from the swish-swish
Staying sane and positive
Can't crumble like a biscuit
Is that 80s music
I've heard a story, could be true
About a colour under blue
You couldn't see it with your eyes
Or invent with intellect
Like the inverse of colourblindness
It shadows light in natural gas
I've got to see it for myself
Settle my own curiousness
Little known fact: I am red/green colorblind. It sucks, but it could be worse!