Futuroscope
After a couple of weeks of saving cash and sitting at home I finally gave up. Well this sunday was dedicated to a journey through the virtual world. Futuroscope...!!!
http://www.futuroscope.com/eng/plan.php
It's a theme park around 120 Km from Angouleme which has the most amazing collection of 3D simulated short movies. The movies were in 180º Imax domes with movable seats to give the exact effect of virtual reality. Well more than anything else I appreciate the hard work put behind 3D animation. I'm a big fan of this technology now and plan to spend some time to understand how exactly does it work. Of all the simulations the one I found the best was a half an hour movie of music composed using a series of the best percussion instruments around the world. The instrument from India was the "Mridang", a common ingredient of South Indian classical music. Overall had quite a lot of fun all day long.
The brilliant sunset timing here (8:45 pm) helps a lot in making car journeys a lot more fun and easy. The country side of France is at its best in spring and I got the first glimpse of it today. All highway routes have lush green landscape on either side, makes one want to just keep on driving.
One of the good parts of the trip was that I forgot to carry my camera, at times its nice to just enjoy a place without being bothered about capturing photos of each and every thing you come across. I do feel bad about missing out some really nice pictures I could have taken on the highway.
Quite a lot planned for the next couple of months, starting with a trip to the Atlantic coast(La Rochelle) next weekend, plan to spend the Easter weekend in London, followed by another long weekend in Paris in the beginning of May and then a month long vacation in India for my sister's marriage. Got some serious chocolate shopping to do before leaving for Bangalore, will be squeezing it in one of the weekends.
Right now I'm just keeping my fingers crossed for the Visa for London, I hope I get it on time. I'm not very good with vacation planning will be damm irritating to re-plan everything if the British embassy plans to play spoil-sport.
http://www.futuroscope.com/eng/plan.php
It's a theme park around 120 Km from Angouleme which has the most amazing collection of 3D simulated short movies. The movies were in 180º Imax domes with movable seats to give the exact effect of virtual reality. Well more than anything else I appreciate the hard work put behind 3D animation. I'm a big fan of this technology now and plan to spend some time to understand how exactly does it work. Of all the simulations the one I found the best was a half an hour movie of music composed using a series of the best percussion instruments around the world. The instrument from India was the "Mridang", a common ingredient of South Indian classical music. Overall had quite a lot of fun all day long.
The brilliant sunset timing here (8:45 pm) helps a lot in making car journeys a lot more fun and easy. The country side of France is at its best in spring and I got the first glimpse of it today. All highway routes have lush green landscape on either side, makes one want to just keep on driving.
One of the good parts of the trip was that I forgot to carry my camera, at times its nice to just enjoy a place without being bothered about capturing photos of each and every thing you come across. I do feel bad about missing out some really nice pictures I could have taken on the highway.
Quite a lot planned for the next couple of months, starting with a trip to the Atlantic coast(La Rochelle) next weekend, plan to spend the Easter weekend in London, followed by another long weekend in Paris in the beginning of May and then a month long vacation in India for my sister's marriage. Got some serious chocolate shopping to do before leaving for Bangalore, will be squeezing it in one of the weekends.
Right now I'm just keeping my fingers crossed for the Visa for London, I hope I get it on time. I'm not very good with vacation planning will be damm irritating to re-plan everything if the British embassy plans to play spoil-sport.