This was our most recent fulldome and flatscreen Amazon Prime documentary collaboration with Tom Lucas Productions. It featured three titanic visualization efforts I contributed to, which are all available to watch on this website!

The early photosynthesis sequence featured a depiction of energy being captured from a photon, transforming from quantum energy to ATP “the battery of the cell”. The underlying data was a 100 million-atom simulation from the Beckman Institute’s Theoretical Computational Biophysics Group.

The formation of the Solar System sequence featured an N-Body simulation by Kevin Walsh at the Southwest Research Institute. We invented some new visual metaphors to show thousands of bodies orbiting the sun thousands of times and on occasion colliding to form bigger protoplanets.

And the creation of the moon sequence featured a smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulation from Robin Canup at the Southwest Research Institute. This visualization features particles cleanly transforming from gas to liquid to solid and back, a dynamic geometry light, and custom spherical sprite shader.

The film is in theaters and streaming now!