Wednesday, September 5, 2012

skulls and THE SPEED OF LIGHT

HERES THE SKULL, AS PROMISED



I had quite a different approach to sketching it out this time. Instead of blocking in the general shapes, as you can see me doing in most of my drawings, I went with a more straightforward approach, more like the one I use while drawing with pen and paper, which is sketching the outlines first. A picture to clarify can be found BELOOW


So yeah. I drew a skull because... Well, I couldnt think of anything better. I thought a skull wearing a gas mask would be properly cynical and deep, but it turned out all the gas-mask wearing skulls I could muster all looked like shit, so I skipped that shit, and just went for a more basic, easier to draw skull. And I gave him that weird eye instead.

DO YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT ABERRATION IS?! Well, as a stand alone word, it means deviation. BUT DO YOU KNOW WHAT RELATIVISTIC ABERRATION IS?

It has alot to do with that one eye I drew, actually. Relativistic aberration is an optical effect that technically makes it possible to see what is behind you. That is, if you moved near the speed of light. You might experience some difficulties with that though. Thats because in order to reach the speed of light, you need to have zero mass. The atoms we are made of dont. In order for us to reach the speed of light, we would need infinite energy. In order to reach near the speed of light, though, we only need what is for all intents and purposes infinite energy. We dont even need to reach the speed of light :D  Half will do. Or even a quarter! What could be easier?

So yeah. Ill explain this for those of you who cant be arsed firing up your brains. If you move that fast, you will sort of catch up to rays of light. Not the ones moving straight away from you, but those that come slightly from the side. This also means all light seems to be infront-ish of you, even the things that may actally be 160 degrees to the left of you, that you wouldnt normally be able to see. Its an interesting phenomenon, do read more about it. I myself cant seem to explain this in a logical way, so youll just have to google it.

actually fk that. Look back at the shape of the skull. That big left eyehole, to be exact. Imagine it moving fast, and intercepting a ray of light that is moving perpendicularly to the skull, catching it so that it enters the skull through the eyehole. The skull keeps moving, and the back of the inside of the skull is hit by the ray of light. Imagine thats the retina, and thats how you can see things that are 90 degrees to the side of you, even though it would normally be outside your field of vision. Yeah, maybe that wasnt so clear after all. Its easier to understand if you have a picture, as these things such as the speed of light and stuff can be quite hard to grasp.

ANYHOW, ITS LATE, AU REVOIR! Frkloads of schoolwork to do this week, but I might write another entry in the coming days anyway.

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It's also always more fun if you leave some way for us to identify you.