Mapping the Universe

电影艺术基金会正在制作一部科学纪录片，以一种公众可以接触到的形式呈现宇宙局部的准确再现。尽管在过去20年里，我们对宇宙网络结构的了解一直在迅速增长，但由于技术上的复杂性，人们只进行了一些初步的尝试，以向公众传达这一信息，这使得创建一个外行可以理解的准确显示成为一项挑战。新的技术进步极大地解决了这个问题。该系列的高分辨率动画是由国家超级计算应用中心制作的。这部黄金时段的电视连续剧将在高清晰度电视上制作，并将作为Nova系列节目的一部分在PBS播出。波士顿的科学博物馆正在开发供观众和学校使用的辅助材料。其他项目元素将包括一套半小时的节目，名为《宇宙中有什么》，面向年轻观众。这个系列从发现地球的属性开始，然后逐步向外发展，直到第六期节目向观众介绍宇宙的规模。附近宇宙的纸质和CD-ROM地图集提供了获取重要信息和宇宙观点的便利途径，并将允许用户从绘制的太空飞行索引中进行选择。

9814279Tully The Film Arts Foundation is producing a science documentary film to present accurate renditions of the local part of the Universe in a form accessible to the public. While work on our knowledge of the network structure of the universe has been rapidly growing over the past 20 years, there have been only rudimentary attempts to convey this information to the public because of the technical complexities that have made it a challenge to create an accurate display that is understandable by the lay person. New technological advances have greatly allieviated that problem. The high resolution animation in the series is being created by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. This prime-time television series will be produced in high-definition television and will be broadcast as part of the NOVA series on PBS. Ancillary material for use by viewers and schools is being developed by the Museum of Science in Boston. Additional project elements will include a set of half-hour programs called "What's Up in the Universe" for younger viewers. This series begins with discoveries of the properties of the Earth, then steps outward progressively until by the sixth program the audience is introduced to the scale of the universe. A paper and CD-ROM Atlas of the Nearby Universe provides easy access to important information and views of the universe and will allow users to choose from an index of rendered flights through space.