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| Santa, Transformers, etc | Dec 01, 2010 12:41 AM PST | url |
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Added 3 new A* pages:Maybe Santa's coming early this year! :o
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Thanks to WendtWerks for adding A* to their webcomics links archive. :) Links from readers' sites are like gold to webcomics--GOLD I TELL YOU! =D
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I came across the JFK Presidential Library's really elaborate, semi-interactive animated CG presentation We Choose the Moon, which lets you run through the Apollo 11 moon landing mission step-by-step, from launch to leaving the Moon to return to Earth; at each stage of the mission, you can cue up appropriate archived photos and footage, and view the craft from several computer-generated angles, with smooth animations in between that really give a good sense not only of the size and complexity of the space ships, but also how small they are relative to the space around them. Also, it's really good at demonstrating how the various modules disassembled and reassembled; I hadn't realized, for instance, that upon leaving Earth orbit, the lander and command modules, freed from their boosters, disengaged briefly so that the lander could flip around to a braking configuration--then they linked back up in this alternate configuration!
Just like Transformers or something...well okay, maybe not quite like that, but still, pretty neat, and very nicely rendered on that site in full-screen, streaming video.
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