15 THE SHADOWS
OF
ALEXANDRIA |
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AWARDS | ||||||||||||
DIRECTOR | ||||||||||||
Beau Janzen | ||||||||||||
Premiered at Siggraph Electronic Theater 1995; Premio Immagine '95, Milan; Orropas 95 Computer Animation Festival, Tokyo; Machida Museum Computer Animation Show, 1996, Tokyo; "SuperQuark", Italian Public Television, 1996; "Metropolis", Television Espanola, 1996 | ||||||||||||
PRODUCER | ||||||||||||
Beau Janzen | ||||||||||||
CONTRIBUTORS | ||||||||||||
Read by Tina Janzen
Post Production - Silicon Studios, Santa Monica CA., and Mist Media, Toluca Lake, CA. |
SOFTWARE | |||||||||||
Maya and Composer of Alias/Wavefront | ||||||||||||
HARDWARE | ||||||||||||
MUSIC | ||||||||||||
Silicon Graphics | ||||||||||||
Chuck Burgess, Reel Sound Prod. | ||||||||||||
CONTACT | ||||||||||||
Beau Janzen
Fathom Educational Design 4211 Laurel Canyon Blvd. 216 Studio City, CA 91604, USA Tel: +1.818.769.0926
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SUMMARY | ||||||||||||
This piece describes how in the third century b.c., Eratosthenes was able to very accurately estimate the circumference of the earth by measuring the shadows cast in different cities. | ||||||||||||