An animation made in world's smallest atomic unit "A Boy And His Atom"

IBM's researches on nanoscale materials to investigate the limit of data storage capacity, IBM's world's smallest animation made by moving and moving thousands of atoms using that technology "A Boy And His Atom"is.

IBM News room - 2013-05-01 IBM Research Makes World's Smallest Movie Using Atoms - United States
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An atomic animation "A Boy And His Atom" can be seen from the following movie.

A Boy And His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie - YouTube


The atoms lined in the middle of the screen.


One atom flew out of it.


I meet a boy at the jumping point.


An atom that fly or bounces in front of a boy.


Then the boy turns round here ... ...


I started dancing.


A boy and atom that face each other again.


This time I danced with one person.




The atom approaching the boy while jumping.


Landing on the palm of your hand.


I will play with pompons and atoms on the ground.



Atoms that jumped out of the palm ... ...


I hit the wall and bounced back.



Then it strikes the ground, as many water droplets bounce, several atoms appear and scatter.


The atom changes to something like a mat.


Well, stretch out your feet ...


Jump like a trampoline.



Landing.


When the boy gets off the trampoline, the atom gradually becomes the original figure.


Then I went back to the hands of the boy again.



And the atom that floated again fluffy.


Next time I will go up to the sky high.


Begging in the sky ......


It expands steadily.


"THINK"


"IBM"


How was this world's smallest animation made? That is published in the following movie.

Moving Atoms: Making The World's Smallest Movie - YouTube


This is IBM researcher Cristopher Luiz.


When I heard the idea of ​​"making animation using atoms", some members said that some people thought "it's crazy!"


Approximately 250 images were produced to create this animation, but it seems that thousands of atoms were arranged for that purpose. In addition, this animation is being verified for the registration of Guinness records.


In the past, IBM has studied nanoscale materials in order to investigate the limit of data storage capacity, and it is said that the attempt to "make world's smallest animation" is not a completely new attempt for IBM.


Actually bring out models of atoms and verify.


In the movie production, we observe the electronic state and structure of the surface of the material at the atom level developed by IBMScanning tunneling microscopeWas used.


IBM researcher Andreas Heinrich says, "Capturing and positioning atoms, shaping and shaping images is new and unmistakable science, and researchers in the IBM just read books Actually, we will move to action.This movie allows us to share an atomic world with students and those who have not entered the science or mathematics yet and have fun talking with them. "