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Spaghettisierung (Turning to Spaghetti)

Made with Bryce

Created by Horo

Stephen Hawkins spoke from Turning to Spaghetti in his A Brief History of Time (1988). It means the effect a strong tidal force produces near a huge gravitational potential as typically found at Black Holes. The main picture is from http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~wang/gallery/wallpapers/MilkyWay-25001600.jpg. To capture this ?Spaghettisation?, I had to create a special lens in front of the Bryce camera and move it in 0.01 Bryce steps to the right position. The result of the render became the material for a 2D-Face positioned in front of the 2D-Face with the main picture. Between the transparent interior of the ring and the main picture, a 2D-Disk with a mirror material was placed, behind the camera a whole landscape was positioned and lit by a spot. A lightring between the astro picture and the landscape lights everything, the Bryce sun is switched off. The main picture is reality, the spaghetti-ring scientifically sound, the landscape of a binary system with a cool Red Giant and a bluish White Dwarf a product of another dimension of my imagination. The land has no atmosphere but features water nevertheless. A lot of impossible things that might be rounded up with a breakfast at Milyways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.