SELECTED PROJECTS
How Venus Lost Its Ocean (2017)
I produced a science animation explaining why Venus does not have an ocean today, as a final project for VES 54S: Animating Science at Harvard University. Ideas presented were based on Wordsworth and Pierrehumbert (2013) and Jacob (1999) and narrated by my classmate.
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The animation was screened at two Harvard Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) public viewings at the end of the spring 2017 semester.
Animation stills from "How Venus Lost Its Ocean". A visualization of a planetesimal, an early planet beginning to form from rocky material clumping together by gravity.
Skills used:
Adobe AfterEffects, Adobe Illustrator,
Audacity, Wacom Intuos5 drawing tablet
Time Taken:
4 months
Links:
Left: I'm proud of these two illustrations of Venus and Earth, which were drawn in Adobe Illustrator. Lines pointing to the materials and the size of the planets show their similarities.
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Right: A demonstration of how Venus' and Earth's atmospheres developed. Earth is highlighted on the left to show how temperatures and water vapor pressure increased to form liquid water, by the Clausius-Clayperon equation. The plot on the right animates the phase diagram for water from Jacob (1999)'s Atmospheric Chemistry textbook.
Correction: At 1:32, Venus' distance from the modern sun means it should receive 1.9 times the solar radiation on its surface than Earth did, not 1.4 times.