House of Cards and the Making of...

[chezsimon]

Radiohead's video for House Of Cards

Comments

[stone_trees]

I rather enjoyed that, but then again, House of Cards, whatever its format would be pretty hard to not enjoy.

[chezsimon]

The creative process itself was more interesting to me than the end visual result, I have to say. I'm sure it'll be improved upon soon.

[stone_trees]

We used and experimented with stuff like this when I was working for Ford. Certainly we had a less refined scanner to plot out the geometry of cars in order to get them into the computers from CFD analysis, but we also experimented with pressure sensitive paints that glowed under ultraviolet light during wind tunnel test.

Long story short, the technique they are using has been around for a long time, the computers are simply powerful enough now to enable real time, digital recording of motion.

[chezsimon]

That sounds totally fun. Now I'm imagining cars with neon-like glowing bodies speeding through dark tunnels.

[stone_trees]

It was really cool. However, a wind tunnel is different from a regular tunnel. Typically, these are used by airplanes more than cars, but you hold a model of the vehicle stationary and blow air over it. We do it to measure the drag, lift, and sideforce (along with other parameters) generated on a body by the act of driving (or flying). Important stuff for fuel economy in both the car and airplane world.

[chezsimon]

I'm aware of the difference between a wind tunnel and a regular tunnel. ;-) It was the combination of words like pressure sensitive paints, ultraviolet light, geometry, and tunnels that somehow gave me that image of neon speeding cars. Lol. My mind works in weird ways at times.