My Diploma Thesis Video

This 10-minute music video is the finale of my diploma thesis on the topic of 3-D animation of numerically simulated motion sequences using POV-Ray.
You can download the video at full resolution (1024x576) in DivX AVI with MP3 stereo audio from the ED2K network by clicking here:
High quality DivX version of the music video, 225 MB (requires eMule)

Translated subtitles

3-D animation of motion sequences
free rotations - stable rotation about the axes with the highest and lowest moment of inertia (left, right) - unstable rotation about the third axis (tumbling)
unstable, chaotic planetary trajectory in a binary star system
stable, circular planetary trajectory in a binary star system
spring pendulum with stimulator, chaotic trajectory
spring pendulum with fixed mount, regular trajectory
two massive axes on an inclined plane
tippe-top: trampoline jumps on a soft floor
tippe-top: rising onto the stick (center of gravity in highest position)
grocery cart with low payload
grocery cart with medium payload
grocery cart with heavy payload
numeric simulation: Prof. Dr. Friedhelm Kuypers, Matlab, Mechanicus
3D modelling and animation: Tobias Hoerburger, POV-Ray
video cut and production: Tobias Hoerburger, VideoMach, Premiere Pro, VirtualDubMod, DivX

Background

I worked on my diploma thesis from February to November 2006. I was given the simulation results - mainly a matrix of transient position and orientation values and a list of geometry parameters - as a MatLab data file, which I exported to a CSV-like format. This file was then read by the POV-Ray scene files. All the material in this film and a few other video sequences were rendered using POV-Ray for Windows v3.6 on my "ubahnsound" PC (1667 MHz Athlon XP 2000+). Total render time was about 15 days, with other applications running on the same machine.

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