Performing my new musical version of 'The Onomatophore of the Anthropocene' at the @Anticipation_C onference at @LancasterUni on Thursday, with the Planetary Ages Choir (@Bethdelange, Huw Johnson, Kathryn MacDonald, @PeteMoser, Mark Mukerji, Anni Tracy), and images by @Adam_Y.
A 27-second time-lapse video of part of 'Life in a planetary ring', Lancaster Central Library, 13 April 2024. @LancasterUni @CampusintheCity @LancashireCC 14/14
Finally, Exhibit 8 was a little pod where visitors could draw their own ideas about what life might be like in a planetary ring. If humans lived there, how might they adapt to or take advantage of how rings behave? What forms of alien life might evolve there? 12/14
Moving to the IMAGINE phase, Exhibit 7 was a wall on which people could write their own questions about planetary rings, prompted by a few ideas of our own and encouraged to be as wild and imaginative as they wanted! 11/14
Exhibit 6 used our free downloadable 3D virtual reality app for Android, developed in 2019 by graduate interns Thomas Cann & Sam Hinson and artists Ashley James Brown & Tony Doyle, that immerses the user in a ring system and lets them fly around it. ashleyjamesbrown.com/ringmin… 10/14
Exhibit 5 was coded by student intern Atiya Mahboob, building on work by students Chris Lawson & Ben Pilcher. Visitors could add a moon into a section of ring, alter parameters, and see how this affected the trajectory of particles around it in surprising ways. 9/14
Exhibit 4 was a flight simulator coded by student Ben Lowe, based on the SpaceX Dragon 2 vehicle controls and Heads-Up Display. Visitors learned how to pilot a spacecraft through a ring system - and could even try to land on a moon! 8/14
Exhibit 3 (by former students Luigi Lin and Alexandra Stanhope) modelled how ring particles can sometimes coalesce into moons, and moons break up into particles - in PLAY mode, young visitors proved proficient at adjusting parameters and creating extraordinary dynamics. 7/14
Exhibit 2 showcased the work of former student Aaron Patel - a moonlet orbiting in a ring gap producing wave-like wakes in the ring edges. 6/14
Exhibit 1 was a show-reel of simulations and visualisations of a full ring system first developed by digital artist Ashley James Brown @arctic_sunrise, with a rotating quadraphonic soundscape created by sound designer Tony Doyle. 5/14
