Hi all,
I wonder if there could be a way for school or college kids to make an
animation of the rotary grade seperator (please see
anangpur.com
/anangpur.org or
http://geocities.com/brownie216in/rotary.pdf)
using the open source 3d modelling software blender from
blender.org.
Blender has been used for making animation films and is a super tool for
those who want to take up a career in design/animation.
The rotary grade seperator is an idea for substituting flyovers in urban
transportaion projects and better town planning and has been concieved
by architect Anil Laul of Delhi.
This could be a start for a new form of collaboration between hard
pressed ngos/activists/free thinkers/ and youngsters (and
corporates/philanthropists) with a lot of potential who want to learn a
new tool besides contributing to society. Such an animation if produced
as an end product (maybe as a result of a school or college level
competition) could really build the momentum for adoption of open source
technologies such as blender (substitute for autocad type softwares in
some ways) while also giving publicity/recognition to innovative and
enterprising concepts in the field of structures/urban art/town
planning/transportation etc.
Buses, cars, 2 and 3 wheelers as well as pedestrians could be shown in
the animation actually performing their activities so that viewers can
easily understand the logic of the concept. Right now without reading
the 12 page pdf file, it is not easy to understand the flyover
substitute from the small image present at the website of
anangpur.com.
Also the key feature of no negative spaces could be presented much
better with an animation.
Kush