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It’s hard to define what makes something beautiful, but we seem to know beauty when we see it. Why is that and how does beauty affect our subconscious?

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Meditate on the beauty of our home.

Orbit is a real time reconstruction of time lapse photography taken on board the International Space Station by NASA’s Earth Science & Remote Sensing Unit.

The structure of the film is built around a nested selection of Phaeleh’s last three albums; Lost Time, Illusion of the Tale & Somnus. The tone & pacing of each track influenced the choice of material used.

Typically each time lapse sequence was photographed at 1 frame per second.

Each sequence was processed in Photoshop. A dirtmap was made in order to repair dust, blemishes and hot pixel artifacts that would otherwise confuse the re-timing phase of the workflow resulting in strobes and distracting blurs.

Image processing techniques were used to emphasize features on the Earth’s surface. Every sequence consists of a number of layers that when masked, processed & blended correctly produce the final look of each shot.

To make sure each sequence was recreated faithfully to the actual rate of speed observed I referenced time-stamps on the first and last frame in the sequence and used frame interpolation software to produce the other 59 frames.

The length of the film is exactly the length of time it takes ISS to orbit the Earth once, 92 minutes & 39 seconds.

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February 5th, 2018

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French translation by Clement Keirua…

Méditez sur la beauté de notre maison.

Orbit est la reconstruction de photos timelapse prises à bord de la station spatiale internationale (ISS) par l’équipe Remote Sensing Unit de la NASA.

La structure du film est construite autour d’une sélection des trois derniers albums de Phaelaeh; Lost Time, Illusion of the Tale et Somnus. Le ton et rythme de chaque morceau ont influencé le choix des images.

Typiquement, chaque séquence time lapse a été photographiée à une image par seconde.

Chaque séquence a été retraitée dans Photoshop. Une dirtmap[1] a été réalisée afin de réparer la poussière, les imperfections et les artefacts visuels qui auraient autrement perturbé les phases de re-synchronisation, résultant en des flous et effets stroboscopiques perturbants.

Des techniques de traitement d’images ont été utilisées pour souligner les particularités de la surface de la Terre. Chaque séquence consiste en un certain nombre de couches qui, lorsqu’elles sont masquées, traitées et combinées correctement, produisent le rendu final de chaque cliché.

Pour s’assurer que chaque séquence a été recrée fidèlement à la vitesse observée, j’ai référencé des horodatages sur les premières et dernières images de chaque séquence, et j’ai utilisé un programme d’interpolation photo pour produire les autres 59 images.

La longueur du film est exactement le temps nécessaire à ISS pour orbiter une fois autour de la Terre, 92 minutes et 39 secondes.

Seán Doran,
5 février 2018

[1] Une dirtmap est une carte de toutes les marques et poussières sur les fenêtres d’ISS, et les lentilles des appareils photo utilisés pour prendre les clichés. Cela inclut également les “pixels chauds” qui apparaissent dans les prises de nuit, comme des points très brillants. Tous doivent être corrigés ou déguisés pour que la resynchronisation fonctionne correctement.

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This visualization attempts to capture the mood of Claude Debussy’s best-known composition, Clair de Lune (moonlight in French). The piece was published in 1905 as the third of four movements in the composer’s Suite Bergamasque, and unlike the other parts of this work, Clair is quiet, contemplative, and slightly melancholy, evoking the feeling of a solitary walk through a moonlit garden.

The visuals were composed like a nature documentary, with clean cuts and a mostly stationary virtual camera. The viewer follows the Sun throughout a lunar day, seeing sunrises and then sunsets over prominent features on the Moon. The sprawling ray system surrounding Copernicus crater, for example, is revealed beneath receding shadows at sunrise and later slips back into darkness as night encroaches.

The visualization was created to accompany a performance of Clair de Lune by the National Symphony Orchestra Pops, led by conductor Emil de Cou, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on June 1 and 2, 2018, as part of a celebration of NASA’s 60th anniversary.

The visualization uses a digital 3D model of the Moon built from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter global elevation maps and image mosaics. The lighting is derived from actual Sun angles during lunar days in 2018.

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