Paper Info
Title
House of numbers: animation of the replication of HIV
Abstract
"House of Numbers" is a feature-length documentary that critiques the many inconsistencies in worldwide AIDS research, testing, funding, and healthcare. This animation of the replication process of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was created to illustrate the generally accepted view of how HIV infects humans. While no hard data were used to create the models, there was extensive research done by the animator to create an HIV model that reflected generally accepted properties of HIV, such as its protein components and overall structure. There are still many unanswered questions regarding the process that HIV undergoes to infect human T-cells, so choices were made by the animator and director on how to best illustrate the process based on descriptions from scientists and existing static illustrations. Deliberate choices were also made throughout the production process to create some drama and a dark mood in the camera movement, lighting, and color treatment, to emphasize the words and tone of the many scientists who contributed to the narration and documentary. The final animation was reviewed by experts in AIDS research for overall accuracy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1145/1596685.1596747
SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Fesitval
Field
DocType
Citations 
World Wide Web,Replication Process,Computer graphics (images),Computer science,Narrative,Drama,Artificial intelligence,Animation
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
W. Scott Meador1384.26