Planning Grant for an IMAX Film: THE SEARCH FOR INFINITY

IMAX 电影规划资助：寻找无限

• 批准号: 0003387
• 负责人: Jeffrey Kirsch
• 金额: $ 4.95万
• 依托单位: Reuben H. Fleet Science Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-09-15 至 2001-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0003387&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; IMAX; Film; SEARCH

0003387KIRSCHThe Reuben H. Fleet Space Center is developing "The Search for Infinity," a large-format film on mathematics and nature. The current concept, based on a film idea developed in collaboration with Sir Arthur C. Clarke, is to center the film on an intelligent computer running an unmanned space probe. By following the actions of the computer, audiences will learn about mathematical fractals and the relationships between fractals and the natural world. A key effect planned for the film will be a prolonged zoom into the endless details of the celebrated Mandelbrot Set fractal.Jeffrey Kirsch, Director of the Reuben H. Fleet Space Center, will be PI and Executive Producer for the film. The Co-Executive Producer will be Christina Schmidlin, Vice-President of XAOS, Inc, one of the world's leading computer graphics studios, and the Producer-Director will be Ronald Fricke. This production team will work with Sir Arthur Clarke to write the treatment for the film. Scientists working directly in the pre-production phase of the project include Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, and Rudy Rucker of San Jose State University. Other advisors include: Benoit Mandelbrot, Yale University; Maxine Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago; Bernard Pailthorpe, San Diego Supercomputer Center; and David Brin, Science Fiction author and astrophysicist.During this planning phase the project will: (1) identify subjects that are best suited to illustrate the fractal geometry of nature in large format film; (2) conduct front-end evaluation to assess the potential educational benefits of such a film; (3) write a treatment and develop a storyboard for the film; conduct formative evaluation of the treatment; (4) produce a motion picture sequence to demonstrate the educational power of the large format film medium to convey complicated ideas related to computer processes; and (5) develop interactive web-based activity concepts to exploit the film's distribution in the museum-dominated large format film community.

0003387 KIRSCH鲁本H.舰队航天中心正在开发“寻找无限”，一个关于数学和自然的大幅面电影。 当前的概念基于与亚瑟·C爵士合作开发的电影创意。克拉克，是中心的电影在一个智能计算机运行无人驾驶的太空探测器。 通过跟随计算机的动作，观众将了解数学分形以及分形与自然世界之间的关系。 这部电影计划的一个关键效果将是长时间放大到著名的曼德布洛特集分形的无尽细节。舰队航天中心，将PI和执行制片人的电影。 联合执行制片人将是克里斯蒂娜施密特林，副总裁XAOS公司，世界领先的计算机图形工作室之一，和制片人兼导演将是罗纳德克。 这个制作团队将与亚瑟克拉克爵士合作，为这部电影撰写治疗方案。 直接参与该项目前期工作的科学家包括沃里克大学数学教授Ian Stewart和圣何塞州立大学的Rudy Rucker。 其他顾问包括：Benoit Mandelbrot，耶鲁大学; Maxine Brown，伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校; Bernard Pailthorpe，圣地亚哥超级计算机中心;大卫布林，科幻小说作家和天体物理学家。在这个计划阶段，该项目将：（1）确定最适合在大幅面电影中说明自然分形几何的主题;（2）进行前期评估，以评估此类电影的潜在教育效益;（3）为电影编写治疗并开发故事板;对治疗进行形成性评估;（4）制作一段电影片段，以展示大画幅电影媒介的教育力量，传达与计算机程序有关的复杂概念;及（5）发展互动式网上活动概念，以利用电影在博物馆主导的大画幅电影社区的发行。