“Galaxy Cluster Dynamics” by Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC)
Conference:
SIGGRAPH Video Review:
Track:
- 10
Title:
- Galaxy Cluster Dynamics
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC)
Description:
An educational video that includes a series of visualization animations showing interactions and evolutions of galaxy clusters. The first set depicts the collision and merging of two simulated galaxies designed to represent the Milky Way and Andromeda. The simulation follows over three million particles using a self-consistent field algorithm. A second group of ani-mations shows an N-body simulation of the evolution of 100 smaller disk galaxies into a cluster.
Additional Contributors:
Director/Producer: John Dubinski
Numerical Simulation: Joel Welling
Rendering Software Video Support: Anjana Kar, Greg Foss