Huayu Zhihao

Chapter 1022

Dr. Zhou opened the airlock without fully docking with the Eternity, and the resulting uncontrolled decompression killed him and caused the Eternity to spin out of control. Cooper successfully docked the Eternity to stabilize it.

However, the resources on the Eternity are no longer enough to return to the earth, so the two sailed to the black hole "Gargantua", ejected TAS to let it collect the data of the gravitational singularity, and after receiving the data and sending it back to the earth, they used gravity to boost to go to Egypt. Star Demons implements Plan B.

In order to reduce the mass of Eternity and let the international chapter escape, Matthew McConaughey let the rover he was driving detached after running out of fuel and entered the black hole "Gargantua"!
The super-large black hole Gargantua is undoubtedly the most memorable scene in "Interstellar". Compared with the majestic and mysterious black hole, the power of human beings seems insignificant.

The so-called black hole is actually not a hole, but a sphere. The density of this sphere is extremely high, so the gravitational force is very strong.

The boundary of the gravitational range of a black hole is called the "event horizon". Anything that enters the gravitational range of the black hole cannot escape, including light. People cannot detect things within the horizon. This is the origin of the name "black hole".

A series of magical phenomena occur near the event horizon of a black hole, including the bending of light caused by the huge gravitational force. Einstein vividly called this phenomenon "gravitational lensing".

Alternatively, a spinning black hole attracts surrounding matter, forming a ring known as an "accretion disk."

Accretion disks emit bright light as they increase in energy.

Black holes themselves have no light, and people can only observe black holes through gravitational lenses and accretion disks. This is what the special effects team of "Interstellar" needs to present.

The problem is that previous special effects renderers are based on the principle that "light travels in a straight line", and this principle does not apply around black holes!

The special effects team had to refer to the formulas of physical astronomers to write a "bending light renderer" for black hole image rendering, which is the first renderer in history that conforms to general relativity.

Special effects personnel simulated a high-speed rotating black hole in the computer, and placed a flat, colored ring around the black hole for testing.

After some computational simulations, strange things happened. The special effects team found that the distorted space around the black hole distorted the accretion disk itself, and the halo became criss-crossed and weirdly shaped.

The special effects team thought it was an error in the rendering algorithm, but after analysis by physical astronomers, they concluded that this is what a black hole should look like.

No one has ever shown the exact appearance of black holes and wormholes in previous movies, but "Interstellar" has done it. This is the most physical black hole scene that humans have obtained so far.

And this magnificent and magical black hole is indeed one of the most beautiful pictures in the film!

Meanwhile, the rover is destroyed while passing the black hole, and Matthew McConaughey eventually ejects to escape, but he soon finds himself in a non-linearly flowing fifth-dimensional tesseract.

So far, Matthew McConaughey understands that human beings who have transcended time and space and evolved to a higher civilization in the future have created four-dimensional hypercubes and wormholes to save human beings in the past. He also understands that he is also the ghost that Murphy met when he was a child. Participate in the Lazarus Project.

""Interstellar" Scene 185, Scene 1, Shot 1, pop!"

At this time, Cooper, the male protagonist who escaped by ejection, continued to fall and fell into the fifth dimension.

"Uh...uh..."

Circus McConaughey was hoisted by a wire rope, and then fell suddenly, and a camera was installed on another boom just above his head, and fell at the same time.

This is used to capture the shots that Matthew McConaughey is constantly falling.

"Crack!" Chen Hao shouted, "The speed of the camera boom is a bit slow, and it didn't keep up with Matthew. Do it again!"

After 5 minute, shooting continued.

""Interstellar" Scene 185, Scene 1, Shot 2, pop!"

"Uh...uh..."

……

"Crack!" Chen Hao shook his head and said, "This time it's a little bit faster, next time it's good to be a little slower, just a little bit, it's under control."

"Okay, Director!"

"Matthew, can you persist?" Chen Hao looked at Matthew McConaughey and said.

"OK, I'm fine." Matthew smiled.

"Okay, let's do it again!" Chen Hao said, "Just a little slower this time!"

Another 5 minutes passed.

""Interstellar" Scene 185, Scene 1, Shot 3, pop!"

"Uh...uh..."

……

Chen Hao looked at the monitor, and the distance and speed between the camera and Matthew were just right, so he shouted, "Okay, that's over, the next shot!"

""Interstellar" Scene 185, Scene 2, Shot 1, pop!"

Matthew McConaughey, who was constantly falling, suddenly stopped falling, and after looking around, he realized that he was in a five-dimensional space-time!
The so-called "five-dimensional time and space", it is very difficult to present this concept on the big screen.

It is generally believed that the world we live in is a four-dimensional space-time, that is, three spatial dimensions plus one time dimension, while a five-dimensional space-time has four spatial dimensions.

A cube with four spatial dimensions is called a hypercube, and the task of Haotian Special Effects is to visually present this hypercube.

From an artistic point of view, they could have expressed this space abstractly, but under the influence of Chen Hao, Haotian Special Effects decided to try to make the exact shape of the hypercube.

Since humans currently cannot understand the four dimensions of space, Chen Hao designed Cooper to fall into one of the faces of the hypercube.

We know that the faces of a cube are two-dimensional, so the faces of a hypercube are three-dimensional.

Chen Hao made Cooper fall into the "three-dimensional surface" of the hypercube, so that Cooper did not disappear.

At the same time, Murphy's bedroom is located on another three-dimensional surface of the hypercube (yes, they are so close in the five-dimensional space-time), which is why Cooper will see Murphy's bedroom in the hypercube.

According to Einstein's theory of relativity, it is impossible to go back in time, even into high-dimensional space-time.

But the design in the film allows gravitational waves to travel through time and affect the past, and for Cooper, he needs to see all time, from the past to the future.

As Tas said, time is an entity in the five-dimensional space-time, just like a line, you can see every moment on the line from the beginning to the end, but the only way to change what happened in the past moment is with the help of gravitational waves.

Therefore, the special effects team began to think about what it should look like inside the hypercube, especially how to show "time is an entity" and how to show every moment of all objects on the entire timeline.

The special effects team had to find a balance, not to make the picture too cluttered, but also to observe what happened in Murphy's bedroom at different moments on the timeline from Cooper's perspective.

The ultimate solution was to shrink the six images of Murphy's bedroom and make each image emit two vertical lines, which are the "timelines".

Whenever the time lines intersect, an image of the bedroom will be generated, so there can be countless images of the bedroom in the entire five-dimensional space. These images are located at different positions on the time line, so each image represents a different time.

Cooper can see the past or future of Murphy's bedroom just by floating along the timeline.

Chen Hao always hopes to give the actors something to refer to and interact with on the set. He doesn't want the actors to rely on imagination to complete the performance in front of the empty green screen.

Whether there is a real object for reference, the effect of the shooting is still quite different. Even if a person's imagination and acting skills are good, as long as the audience is careful enough, they can still distinguish whether there is real object shooting.

However, in the eyes of the audience, shooting without real objects is a bit fake. Whether it is the angle, or some misalignment of eyes, or overlapping or no contact between objects, in the eyes of the audience, the special effects are a little fake.

But it is also very likely that the actors performed completely without physical objects. For a director who strives for excellence, this is undoubtedly an unforgivable mistake.

In order to strive for authenticity, it is impossible for Chen Hao to make such a mistake, and there must be real objects for the actors to refer to when performing.

Therefore, even for such an abstract hypercube, Chen Hao asked the special effects team to build something on the set.

In the end, they built part of the hypercube, surrounded by four rooms, which will be expanded to an infinite number at a later stage.

Projectors were also used in the actual shooting of the hypercube. The special effects team projected images generated by time changes onto the four walls of the built room, which allowed the entire shooting team to have an intuitive understanding of the time axis inside the hypercube.

Of course, digital effects were added to every frame of this entire scene.

Cooper walked through the "time tunnel" of the hypercube, browsing all the moments on the timeline, and the background of this tunnel was undoubtedly made by CG.

However, Chen Hao still refused to use the green screen. Instead, he hung Matthew McConaughey in front of the Led light box on the set.

……

In the camera, Matthew McConaughey is looking for the right time and space moment behind the bookshelf (in the five-dimensional space, you can see Murphy's bedroom) to deliver a message to his daughter.

With the help of the boom, Matthew McConaughey spun around, flipping through the books and looking into the bedroom. After finding the right moment, he began to smash the books and push them to the ground in the bedroom, trying to Attract the attention of daughter Murphy.

"Murphy!" Matthew opened his arms and waved, trying to attract Murphy.

But obviously, it was useless to do so, because his voice and movements could not be detected by Murphy in the instant of five-dimensional time and space.

But the falling books did attract Murphy's attention, and she was walking towards the bookshelf.

"Murphy!" Matthew shouted, "No, Murphy..."

"Crack!" Chen Hao shouted, "Matthew, the shouting should be more hysterical, and the expression on the face should be more ferocious."

"Okay, received, director!" Matthew raised his hand and said.

"Okay, let's do it again!" Chen Hao said.

""Interstellar" Scene 185, Scene 2, Shot 2, pop!"

"Murphy!" Matthew shouted, screaming hysterically with a contorted face, "No, no, no, no...no..."

Because Murphy in the bedroom left the bedroom without getting close to the bookshelf because of the shouts of his family, which made Matthew very anxious and even a little desperate.

"Okay, it's over!" Chen Hao looked at the monitor and shouted, "Get ready for the next shot!"

""Interstellar" Scene 185, Scene 3, Shot 1, pop!"

Matthew drifted around again, looking for the right moment, and then he saw himself saying goodbye to Murphy in his bedroom and heading to NASA for Project Lazarus.

"No, no, no, don't go, you idiot!" Matthew roared, "Don't go!"

Then Matthew found a moment when he had not come to Murphy's room to say goodbye to her, and began to tear down the books, intending to convey the meaning of "stay" (stay) in Morse code.

"Don't let me leave, keep me, Murphy!" Matthew shouted looking at the scene in the moment, "No, no, no..."

Murphy was attracted and also recorded the information, but it didn't help. Murphy failed to keep Matthew, and Matthew resolutely embarked on a journey to save the world.

"Cooper, please answer, Cooper!"

"Tas?" Cooper, who was in despair, heard Tas's voice.

"Got it!" Tass said.

"You survived!" Matthew said happily.

"I'm in the fifth-dimensional space now, they saved us." Tass said.

"Who are they?" Matthew asked.

"I don't know, but they created this three-dimensional space in this five-dimensional space. You see, time exists as a substance here." Tass said, "You once deduced that a force can travel through time and space."

"It's gravity!" Matthew murmured, "Can it convey information?"

"Yes, that's right!" Tass said.

Matthew frowned, "Gravity can cross dimensions, including time?!"

Then Matthew laughed, "You have quantum data?"

"That's right, but I can't pass it on." Tass said.

"I'll figure it out!" Matthew said.

"Pass it to a child?" Tass said, "Even if you pass it on, it will take at least ten years to work!"

"We have no choice, otherwise all human beings on earth will die." Matthew said.

Then Matthew understood that it was probably human beings who created this five-dimensional space. They created this space to let them pass on information to save abandoned human beings.

And the one chosen was not him, but his daughter Murphy!

"Tas, give me the location of the space agency in binary." Matthew said, "I have to find a way to communicate with Murphy."

"In what way?" Tas asked.

Matthew began to travel through countless moments, trying to find this way, until he saw a watch he left for his daughter Murphy.

"The watch! That's it!" Matthew excitedly said, "We can convert the data into the movement of the second hand, Tass, convert the data into Morse code and send it to me."

"She'll pick up that watch!"

"Because I gave it to her!"

"Okay, it's over!" Chen Hao looked at the monitor and nodded, then said with a loudspeaker, "I announce that "Interstellar" is finished!"

(End of this chapter)