{"id":165,"date":"2006-11-07T17:16:47","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T23:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxalien.com\/purplemass\/?p=165"},"modified":"2006-11-07T17:16:47","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T23:16:47","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"CGI-out, Yeast and Fluid Dynamics-In!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Special-effects wizard Peter Parks created the ethereal nebula shots (shown here) by photographing a few microliters of iodine and baby oil in his 400-year-old workshop:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/ly\/wired\/wired\/archive\/14.11\/images\/FF_222_outsider3_f.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Fountain&#8217; is the new film by Darren Aronofsky. Instead of using traditional CGI methods to create interstellar backdrops for his shots, they employed an English guy called Peter Parks master of the &#8216;microzoom optical bench&#8217; to create backdrops using water, yeast and all kinds of crazy checmical reactions.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\" target=\"_blank\">Wired magazine<\/a> have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/14.11\/outsider.html?pg=1&#038;topic=outsider&#038;topic_set=\" target=\"_blank\">full article<\/a> on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special-effects wizard Peter Parks created the ethereal nebula shots (shown here) by photographing a few microliters of iodine and baby oil in his 400-year-old workshop: &#8216;The Fountain&#8217; is the new film by Darren Aronofsky. Instead of using traditional CGI methods to create interstellar backdrops for his shots, they employed an English guy called Peter Parks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}