Animating Fermi - A Collaboration Between Art Students and Astronomers

Abstract

Undergraduate animation students at the Maryland Institute College of Art teamed up with scientists from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope to produce a set of animations on several astronomy topics. We describe the process and discuss the results, including educational benefits and the cross-cultural experience. These animations are freely available online.

2 pages. Accepted for publication in Leonardo (Transactions). Main animations available at https://vimeo.com/94023644

References in corpus (3)

• The Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor
• Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope: High-Energy Results from the First Year
• Aesthetics and Astronomy: Studying the public's perception and understanding of non-traditional imagery from space