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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Bella Gaia

More Earth appreciation news ^^

BELLA GAIA, which means "Beautiful Earth" is a multimedia audio-visual presentation expressing the deeply moving beauty of planet Earth as seen through the eyes of astronauts.Through data visualizations, dance and music performances, it tells the story of the living universe and explore humanity's challenges as we enter a new human epoch called the Anthropocene. We can see real-time display of the Earth rendered by the Uniview visualization platform.

Monday, May 7, 2012

Correcting colors


It's been almost a year since I rebooted this project (switching to Houdini and learning how to write VEX shaders), during which I have spent countless hours making minute tweaks to various shader properties in an attempt to get the right look and feel.

Alas, I feel I have pushed the shaders far enough. I've decided that it's time to apply color correction and adding effects in post to bring the final look home. At times it seem the changes I keep making are too miniscule to be even noticeable, but then again, I find it hard to put things down as long as something doesn't look right. The problem is - something always look out of place :(

Anyway, I constantly remind myself that this project is a learning process, and ultimately worth the effort at least from the educational angle ^^;;