Equinox Graphics - Science 3D blog http://www.e-nox.net/blog Delivering the Art of Science Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:41:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 ESA’s Solar Orbiter, Evolved http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=326 http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=326#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:41:38 +0000 Equinox Graphics http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=326 An update of our animation of ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission, to reflect the new configuration as it is officially contracted to satellite builders Astrium.  We’ve also taken the opportunity to improve the quality of our animation, using tools and techniques developed since our previous release.

Supplied with an updated CAD file and a list of changes to materials and instrument configurations, we were able to re-make the animation in record time for less than 20% of the original cost.

View more about the Solar Orbiter mission.

BBC news report about Solar Orbiter.

]]> http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?feed=rss2&p=326 0 Naval Satcoms product video http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=316 http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=316#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 08:32:59 +0000 Equinox Graphics http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=316 We’ve produced another satcom video, this one is more of a product features video for a naval terminal.  We’ve tried to avoid the cheesy corporate style (don’t blame us for the music), and it features an animated naval scenario with full simulated ocean and lots of pretty motion graphics to link it all together.

]]> http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?feed=rss2&p=316 0 Synthetic Biology Documentary – Creating Life (50 minutes) http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=270 http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=270#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:10:53 +0000 Equinox Graphics http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=270 Here’s the synthetic biology documentary we had the pleasure of working on.  The documentary titled “Creating Life – The Ultimate Engineering Challenge,” by Kelly Neaves and Dominic Rees-Roberts, follows the Imperial College IGEM team (International Genetically Engineered Machine), as they discover how to engineer bacteria to perform specific tasks, and consider the implications of their work.  Our graphics help to illustrate some of the more abstract concepts, in what is a fairly technical documentary.

]]> http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?feed=rss2&p=270 0 Quantum Computing Illustrations http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=298 http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=298#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:17:29 +0000 Equinox Graphics http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=298 Illustrating quantum computing is always a challenge.  Information theory, optic benches and quantum weirdness don’t lend themselves easily to beautiful illustrations.  But that was the task given to us by the “Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation” at the University of Vienna, for their paper which has been accepted into Science.

Their paper describes a method of “Blind Quantum Computing”.  In a world where Quantum Computers are large, expensive, and are used to process sensitive data (e.g. financial transactions, secure communications), the authors anticipate that it will be necessary to perform these computations remotely, on a third party’s computer.  Blind computing involves encoding your data in such a way that they can be encrypted, sent, processed while encrypted, the result sent back and then the result decrypted.  At all stages on the remote computer the data are hidden and secure.  The paper describes and demonstrates a method for performing such a series of operations using quantum-entangled clusters of qubits.

The Arxiv pre-print paper:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1381

]]> http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?feed=rss2&p=298 0 Patrol/helicopter animation – Secure Satcom Systems http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=295 http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=295#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:12:48 +0000 Equinox Graphics http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=295 The second animated sequence we produced for Secure Satcom Systems (part of the Astrium group). This sequence shows that having secure, continuous connectivity allows decisions to be made with all the relevant information to hand. They establish a secure, stable satellite broadband connection from a moving helicopter, and also get around the major issue of whirling pieces of metal scattering the signal, by pulsing the signal to pass through the gaps (similar to old-school propellor planes, where machine guns were timed to fire between the props).

We created this story to show how having all of your assets linked-up in realtime allows decisions to be made better and faster, with all the information to hand.

(no baddies were harmed in the making of this production)

Secure Satcom Systems

]]> http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?feed=rss2&p=295 0 UAV helicopter animation – Secure Satcom Systems http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=290 http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=290#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:23:57 +0000 Equinox Graphics http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=290 We produced a short animated sequence highlighting some innovations from Secure Satcom Systems (part of the Astrium group). Not only can they establish a secure, stable satellite broadband connection from a moving helicopter, but they also get around the major issue of whirling pieces of metal scattering the signal, by pulsing the signal to pass through the gaps (similar to old-school propellor planes, where machine guns were timed to fire between the props).

We created this story to show how having all of your assets linked-up in realtime allows decisions to be made better and faster, with all the information to hand.

Watch out for an extended version coming up (once it’s finished processing at HD!)

(no baddies were harmed in the making of this production)

Secure Satcom Systems

]]> http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?feed=rss2&p=290 0 Epigenetics animations http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=285 http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=285#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:33:59 +0000 Equinox Graphics http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=285 Our Epigenetics animations are now online in Begin Before Birth’s series of Youtube Videos.

The animations help explain the concept of Epigenetics, whereby chemical markers on DNA can switch genes on and off – and these markers can be inherited.  Environmental pressures on a parent can lead to adaptation in the child.

Links:

Begin Before Birth’s Epigenetics for Schools

]]> http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?feed=rss2&p=285 0 SPL’s Clip of the Week http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=280 http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=280#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:10:58 +0000 Equinox Graphics http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=280 Our animation/simulation of convective mixing in a liquid has just been chosen as Science Photo Library’s clip of the week.  Well, it IS quite pretty….

SPL’s Clip of the Week

Our stock images at SPL

Our stock animations at SPL – part 1

Our stock animations at SPL – part 2

]]> http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?feed=rss2&p=280 0 On the Cover of Science Magazine http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=276 http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=276#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:37:25 +0000 Equinox Graphics http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=276 This week, Science magazine have a special edition on Synthetic Biology, in which they: “explore the breadth of this field and how the construction of new biological systems might be harnessed to serve humanity”.

And they feature our illustration on the cover!  This is where art, science and Lego combine….  Synthetic biology is a field close to our heart, and we’ve previously worked on a range of illustrations and animations.

Equinox Graphics on the cover of Science

Synthetic Biology special issue:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6047.toc

About the cover:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6047.cover-expansion

Our previous animations on Synthetic Biology:
http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=174

]]> http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?feed=rss2&p=276 0 New showreel for 2011 ½ http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=271 http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=271#comments Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:58:23 +0000 Equinox Graphics http://www.e-nox.net/blog/?p=271 We’ve updated our showreel on the main page to include the best work we’ve done over the past 6 months or so – we hope you enjoy it!

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