Celestial Mechanics is a planetarium artwork being created by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne. Rather than a presentation of stars and planets, the program reveals many of the aerial technologies hovering, flying, and drifting above us.
(weather balloons)
With help from government agencies and the science community, the artists worked with tracking and protocol statistics to create 3-D models of the airborne systems. They then led a team of animators to visualize those models in a style that reflects the chaos, force, and influence of these technologies.
When completed, Celestial Mechanics will be a collage of over 40 different aerial technologies that is intended to tour planetariums internationally. It will be featured at SIGGRAPH, projected in a 30 foot dome August 2, 3 and 4th during the exhibition in the NVIDIA booth.