The following video is a 3D animation, in short film form, by the spanish artist Cristóbal Vila. It tells the epic story of light; how it reaches our planet after a journey that spans the cosmos. Via io9 and LUX AETERNA on Vimeo
The following video is a 3D animation, in short film form, by the spanish artist Cristóbal Vila. It tells the epic story of light; how it reaches our planet after a journey that spans the cosmos. Via io9 and LUX AETERNA on Vimeo
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Beautiful, It’s amazing how little he did yet he made something so much more. If you really pay close attention you can really see the story unfold.
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Very good. The short film actually wants to tell a story. “LUX AETERNA” means “eternal light” in latin; and if we actually think about it in scientific terms: light is energy, and energy is, to some extent, eternal.
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This is a great piece of art, it has so much detail that it is hard to believe that it was all done with Computer-Generated Art, the title is also very clever because Lux Aeterna means Eternal light in the Latin language and it makes sense because all of the light that has and is being emitted by stars will continue to travel for millions of years. If you look up at the stars, most of what you will see is not how stars are today it is how they were 150,000 years ago and if you were near those stars and you would look back at the Sun you would see how the Sun looked a long time ago.
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Light will always be an important subject for art AND science. Very good, Manuel.
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It was a nice video. It shows how the light moves and reflect in its different colors.
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It shows how the artist thinks about light: “immanent”; which means ever present. Earth is a strange planet because here plants can harness light–they can do wonderful things with it.
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This video is short but its amazing.Its incredible how time passes and yet theres still light.I apreciated in this images how a superior force can create something like this.
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I agree. The video expresses very poetically many things about light that can be explained scientifically as well.
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Discovery Channel’s slogan: “The World is Just Awesome” comes perfect to this video. It’s astonishing how a simple thing like light is, to make such an impact here on Earth. That is why light is the base for all life here on earth.
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Awe inspiring indeed. Remember what we talked about in class about being amazed by nature, and that scientists and artists alike share this very important capacity for amazement? LUX AETERNA does just that–the video allows for the viewer to be amazed; and we are all humans–scientists, artists, etc.–, so that means that we all have the same capacity for amazement, we just have to give ourselves the chance to me amazed. Forget about cynicism just for a day, that should be enough to find new sources for amazement.
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besides the obvious translation to eternal light, this video was very good it showed the huge journey that light takes, everywhere it goes, how it looks and how it moves but something i especially liked about this is that is shows how light interacts with its surroundings creating a beautiful picture..
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Light will always inspire humans. We owe art to a continuous love affair with light.
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Very interesting video!! It shows how the light moves and reflect in its different colors.
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Remember that those different colors we see account for what we know as the visible light spectrum.
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I think it is amazing that they can show light in 3d and it looks amazin I really liked it a lot i liked when it showed the reflection of light in many colors.
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It was Isaac Newton who first proposed that wahite light was made out of many different colors.
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exciting video, light is eternal
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Light is energy, and as the Law of Thermodynamics states, energy cannot be made from scratch, nor can it dissappear.
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I wonder how the Sun, an object we take for granted actually drives all life processes on Earth. The sunlight drives photosynthesis on algae and plants creating the base for our food chain. The picture of light passing through the prism shows you how light has different components that we know as visible spectrum. Different components of photosynthesis depend on different components of the light spectrum to make the chemical reactions happen.
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Isaac Newton broke down the belief that light was pure and white–a 1,500 year old belief proposed by Athenian philosopher Aristotle. The field of quantum mechanics was born. Now light could be measured. This means that we have a better understanding on what light is: a strange (and eternal) phenomenom that has made life posible on Earth.
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The title “Lux Aeterna” is very fitting, it in itself describes the potential and infinite distance light can travel. The same way the video shows to all the amazing place light comes from and can reach from that far away point or simply travel in space eternally.
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Light is the driving force behind life on earth.
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This is a very interesting video, i like the way the light reflects all those different colors, and how after all this time, light still exists.
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It’s comforting to know that some things are eternal.
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Simply beautiful. And to know that light is infinite (or at least as far as we know ) is just wonderful. I say it because as we all know light is energy and energy runs basically everything we know plants, animals,electronics, etc.
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A very fitting title.
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preeeeetty ! haha awesome video i can see how the light reflects its colors and how it moves around ❤ preetty amazinggg
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This short film was mostly animated in 3D rendering.
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It is intresting how much he did for science and how important light is for art and science.
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it is very interesting how light functions.
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I remember one day in class, before taking a test, you highly exclaimed: “LUX AETERNA!” I had to laugh. The whole classroom laughed.
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It’s amazing how a person can say so much yet so little. The story is beautifully constructed and well thought out. The way the creator demonstrated the story of light was extremely poetic and I think the music added a lot to the purpose of the video.
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I agree with your observations, Alexandra. An amazing piece.
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