Showreel with short samples of Magipics’ biomedical animations. The video covers the fields of Biology, Biomedicine, Surgery, Analysis and Nanotechnology.
Soundtrack created in-house.
Here is the video!
Headwind effect
Magipics has created a series of animations for CAASTRO, The Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics. Presented here is an animation illustrating the “headwind effect” (To view it, scroll down to the end of this blog). This animation was created without voice-over and captions, as the presenter would provide his own narration. So a brief explanation is warranted.
A large proportion of the universe is made up of dark matter. “Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter that is thought to account for approximately 85% of the matter in the universe and about a quarter of its total energy density” (Wikipedia). Our movement through space and thus through the dark matter is a combination of the Milky Way’s movement and rotation, the movement of the solar system, and the movement of the Earth around the Sun. So in a sense we are constantly encountering a “head wind” of dark matter. However, the relative speed of this headwind goes through small cyclical fluctuations due to Earth’s orbit around the Sun.
One difficulty when creating this animation was how to visualise something that can’t be seen. So with a bit of artistic licence, the dark matter has been shown as dark blue wispy cloud shapes. We hope this is acceptable to any scientists viewing the animation!
The animation starts out with a wide shot of the slowly spinning Milky Way, surrounded by the dark matter. We then fly in to a closeup of our Sun, level with the galactic plane. As we are now moving with the Sun (and the galaxy), we can see the dark matter streaming towards us. We then shift to a “birds-eye” view of the Sun with the inner planets in their orbits, travelling through the dark matter. We finally move in to a view following the Earth in its orbit around the Sun (note that another bit of artistic licence has been used here: In reality the Earth of course spins 365 times each year, but then it would just be a blur in the animation). As observed from the Earth, the headwind of dark matter is slightly faster through the first half of the year, and slightly slower during the other half. This is further supported visually with the cyclical fluctuation being drawn simultaneously in a superimposed diagram.
Enjoy!
© 2019 Mats Bjorklund
Redshift
Magipics has produced an astrophysics animation that explains the phenomenon of redshift of distant galaxies. This redshift indicates that most galaxies in the universe are moving away from us (and from each other), and that the universe must be expanding. This cosmological redshift fits in with the Big Bang theory: that our universe began in a tremendous explosion and that space has been expanding ever since. [Read more…]
Post-surgical implant
Magipics produces medical animations on a regular basis. Presented here is the second animation we have created for PolyActiva Pty Ltd, describing a surgical procedure. PolyActiva uses a unique drug-polymer conjugate technology to enable site specific drug delivery from medical device components, such as implants, films, or fibers.
This animation demonstrates the use of PolyActiva’s post-surgical antibiotic-releasing implant. [Read more…]
NAPES
2016 was a busy year. One major science animation produced by Magipics in that year was a presentation on NAPES: Next Generation Analytical Platforms for Environmental Sensing. NAPES is a European research consortium, which aims to create low cost deployable, autonomous environmental sensor platforms. These platforms will provide highly specific detection methods for determination of bacterial contaminants and chemical pollutants that can contaminate water supplies. [Read more…]
Introduction to FLEET
Magipics has produced a science animation for the Monash Centre for Atomically Thin Materials. This animation is an introduction to FLEET (ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies). It describes research into new types of transistors in which an electrical current can flow without resistance at room temperature. These novel transistors have the potential for vastly lower energy consumption, thereby transforming the future of information technology. This is of vital importance in today’s world of rapidly increasing demand for computation. [Read more…]
