Uploaded January 2014 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
As showcased at the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition 2014.
You may remember my old animations of nuclear physics done in Blender. The actual animations were quite short, and I ended up slowing down and even reusing some footage. Well, here's the result of months of work to automate the animations in the Source Engine, with a new style to boot.
Electrons move randomly but pick probable positions according to wave-functions which are solutions to the Dirac equation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_equation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen-like_atom#Solution_to_Dirac_equation
Originally the music was Oxygène Part IV by Jean Michel Jarre, but when uploading to YouTube I decided it was smarter not to risk UMG getting on my case. Therefore, the music tracks are as follows:
-"Dark Energy" from the Half-Life 2 soundtrack
-"Yakko's Universe Song" from Animaniacs (it's a nice song and kind of in keeping with the whole Maths/Physics theme)
-"Forwarding the Cause of Science" from the Portal 2 soundtrack
As showcased at the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition 2014.
You may remember my old animations of nuclear physics done in Blender. The actual animations were quite short, and I ended up slowing down and even reusing some footage. Well, here's the result of months of work to automate the animations in the Source Engine, with a new style to boot.
Electrons move randomly but pick probable positions according to wave-functions which are solutions to the Dirac equation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_equation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen-like_atom#Solution_to_Dirac_equation
Originally the music was Oxygène Part IV by Jean Michel Jarre, but when uploading to YouTube I decided it was smarter not to risk UMG getting on my case. Therefore, the music tracks are as follows:
-"Dark Energy" from the Half-Life 2 soundtrack
-"Yakko's Universe Song" from Animaniacs (it's a nice song and kind of in keeping with the whole Maths/Physics theme)
-"Forwarding the Cause of Science" from the Portal 2 soundtrack
