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Deutsches Museum München

The "Deutsches Museum" in Munich is recreating the permanent exhibition about chemistry. To showcase the new concept a first part of the upcomming exibition was set up and shown to the public. My part in this project was, to create 3D-animations that make it easier to understand how polymers are chaining up to form long molecules.

Screenshots

Polymerisation: Start of the reaction

Polymerization: Ethylen breaks the double bound

Polymerization: Etyhlen turns into PE-molecules

Polymerization: Different visual model to represent Ethylen and Polyethylen

Polymerization: Forming chains

Polymerization: Comparison between two models of visual representation

Polymerization: Etylen molecule

Polyaddition: Hexamethylene diisocyanate and Butanediol

Polyaddition: In the middle of the transformation

Polyaddition: PU-molecules

Polyaddition: Simple puzzle model

Polyaddition: Comparison of both visual models

Polyaddition: Hexamethylene diisocyanate and Butanediol

Polycondensation: Terephthalic acid and Glycol

Polycondensation: Process of transformation

Polycondensation: Forming molecule chains

Polycondensation: Puzzle model

Polycondensation: Transformation

Polycondensation: PET-molecule in a simple visual model

Polycondensation: Comparison between visual models

Polycondensation: Terephthalic acid and Glycol

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Documentation

The interesting part about this animation is the combination of the ball-and-stick model with the skeletal formula. This made it possible to show the how valence electrons move and how the transformations runs in detail.

One of the main ideas of the style of the animation was, to get as a close look into the details and giving the animation a bit of action. The camera movement should look organic and fluid the overall style should reflect the scientific seriousness.

Location