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