#Interstellar black hole movie#

What we have been doing is to strip back much of the specific physics of the problem to expose aspects for a very simple case (of a non-spinning black hole and a fixed camera). Speaking about the new course, Professor Anil Kokaram said: “ Since the mid-90s computational engineering ideas have found their way increasingly into movies because they allow artists to simulate fantastical worlds in some believable fashion.

The work contributed to Interstellar winning the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Visual Effects in 2015, and led to the publication of two scientific papers. To achieve this, Oliver James collaborated with Professor Kip Thorne and led a team of software developers to create a new way of visualising gravitational lensing.

#Interstellar black hole movie#

Interstellar was the first Hollywood movie to attempt an accurate depiction of a black hole. The module we’re creating strengthens this link by putting the same methods we used on Interstellar straight into the engineering course at Trinity“, said Double Negative’s Chief Scientist, Oliver James. “ The most rewarding aspect of my involvement in Interstellar is using the link between the movie and science to inspire students. The techniques used in this work are similar to those taught in Professor Kokaram’s Numerical Methods course for students of Engineering, with the pair collaborating on the structure of a new module for the course inspired by this connection. The lecture, Building Interstellar’s Black Hole, describes Oliver’s work on the film and how engineering, physics, mathematics and art were combined to produce some of the most physically-accurate images of a spinning black hole ever created. On Thursday 16th March, Oliver James, Chief Scientist at Double Negative, will deliver a special lecture at Trinity College Dublin in collaboration with the universities’ Professor Anil Kokaram. Two years on since Interstellar won the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Visual Effects, comes the announcement of a course module available to engineering students at Trinity College Dublin, inspired by techniques used in the ground-breaking film.