EMAIL: H_string@yahoo.com.mx NAME: Luis Roman Juárez Sandoval TOPIC: Journey COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Contact(revisited), The transport system COUNTRY: Mexico WEBPAGE: RENDERER USED: Blender 2.25 TOOLS USED: Adobe Premier 6.0, Avi2mpg converter and Terragen CREATION TIME: 20 days HARDWARE USED: 800 MHz Pentium III VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: Windows Media Player for Windows 95/NT works well ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: This animation shows explicitly a reconstruction of the giant machine described in Carl Sagan's Contact the book, also shown in the movie, in which the three outer concentric rings rotate in a very complex way and very fast so the machine can achieve the energy necessary to produce a kind of essential black hole (a black hole of quantum dimensions) which then by quantum effects, explicitly by Cassimir effect, opens the troath of it using negative energy to transform the black hole into a gravitationaly stable wormhole of macroscopic dimensions in the way that a traveller can pass trough it and reach the corners of the universe. A pod or formally the IPV (Inter Planetary Vehicle) is dropped inside the rings in what seems to be a very risky way, but it isn't so because everything is calculated, once the pod has arrived at the very center of the whole thing, it enters the wormhole and the journey begins. Because the good things must come to an end, the ride ends when the pod emerges from the wormhole to be catched by a giant net and finally be damped by the collision with water. Well, enough of scientific facts, better enjoy the movie. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: The principal element is of course the machine which was fully modeled in Blender with help of some images taken from the web page of the movie. How crazy it sounds the first objects modeled where the rings with movement included, after many tryings, because I wanted to be sure that they were functioning perfectly. Then the machine was finished around the rings, done this I focused on the pod which is constitued by a sphere embeded in a structured dodecahedron, the movement of this one was a physicist very simple task (of kinematics),I associated to it the curve of behavior of a body in free fall taking account that the height of the crane from which the pod is released is of 380 m it is 1246.71 ft. The lanscape shown in the first seconds of the animation was done with Terragen and then converted to a .Blend file by using the Ter2Blend plugin. The whole secuence was completed in Adobe Premier where the titles where inserted, and finally the .mpg file was obtained using the avi2mpg1 converter.