Kepler's Model

Here's a funky special effects video that is a combination and variation of 3 others that I've made over the past couple of months.

I derived the title from the famous mathematician Johannes Kepler and his idea of how the heaven's worked.

Also, being a fan of The Police, I was thinking of creating an homage to the shapes used in their album Synchronicity: A triangle, square, and a circle -- although the circle is missing here, since I haven't figured out how to do REAL 3D spheres using 2D video in the program I use.

The music here is from David Bowie: "I took a trip on a Gemini spacecraft" -- which I thought was pretty cool for this short.

 

Serious stuff (inspired by Carl Sagan's Cosmos):

 

Platonic solids:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid

 

Ptolemy:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy

 

Kepler:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler

 

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