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Animated Simulation Lets You Watch the Titanic Sink In Real Time (huffingtonpost.com)
An anonymous reader writes: You can watch the Titanic sink in real time thanks to an animated simulation created with Unreal Engine 4 to promote the upcoming game "Titanic: Honor and Glory." The HuffingtonPost writes, "This simulation includes the iceberg strike, the ship coasting to a halt in the North Atlantic about 20 minutes later, lifeboats lowered into the water and even scenes of flooding in the interior corridors." The animation will even give you a play-by-play of what was happening aboard the ship at specific times. What some may find especially eerie about the simulation is the lack of people. Some 1,500 people died when the Titanic sunk, but the simulation shows no people. You can watch the video here.
This seems a little Unreal to me.
At least I can watch Leonardo DiCaprio's character die. That has to count for something.
I'm sorry, but there was little of either in that disaster. It sounds like they're trying to make it out like some kind of heroic war story instead of the unmitigated disaster that it was. The only upside is that many of the people who were killed were among the wealthiest elite of the time, and that it lead to improved safety regulations as a result of who died. I don't understand why they keep trying to put some kind of heroic spin on something that was a combination of gross incompetence and insufficient safety precautions.
It's well known that corners were cut when building the titanic - particularly with the rivets which metallurgical analysis confirmed were cheaply made and weak due to large amounts of iron slag in the composition of the metal. The crew was operating at night in a stretch of water that was well known to contain icebergs and had claimed a recorded 20 ships already. Essentially they were operating blind. Lookouts failed to spot it, either due to environmental conditions, pure laziness, or overconfidence in the ship design - we may never really know.
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Very true. The deaths from war pale compared to those from natural causes such as heart disease and other natural but preventable causes.
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The movie suggested that the "Titanic" wasn't strong enough to support half its weight, levered and elevated, unsupported in the air. In the movie, the ship snapped in two (without the pieces fully separating).
This would have happened somewhere around 2:40 in the simulation video.
I guess this is just another illustration that Titanic buffs disagree with each other.
This professor's simulation indicates it did break--but not the way Cameron's movie showed!
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Of what happens when you leave safety up to the private sector.
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Nobody was aboard.
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Wars were the #1 non natural cause of death in the 20th century. This accident is nothing in comparison
Indeed. We shouldn't care about driving safely, terrorism or earthquakes, the number of yearly deaths being so low in comparison.
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This is funny! I like it from 9:59:00 as there is only one minute left to watch!
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I imagine in a year or so content creators will start producing VR "Experiences" like this, where a couple of thousand people from all over can spend a few hours/days in VR being "one of the passengers/staff on the Titanic" and have it run as an event, where you're actually in the middle of it.
And from there the possibilities are endless - The moon landing? JFK's assassination (or whoever's version of it) - Sure there'll be tons of fictional worlds and experiences, but a big part of it will be recreating historical experiences for both entertainment and education.
The old "simulation" games like Rome: Total war or even Assassins creed (and Civ, of course) will have a whole new level of immersion to work with. Gonna be exciting.
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The whole thing about real time would be that I can download the boundary conditions of the simulation, and generate the rendering from that on the spot.
This is a prerendered film. Might have taken a month to render it, for all we know.
In case you missed it, we've paid a bit of attention to WW2 as well over the years. Also, funny you mention the atomic bombs, since those were relatively minor killers compared to firebombings and other deaths in that war from far more mundane sources. Now why would you specifically mention those?
It's because, like it or not, you've just aptly demonstrated that the circumstances surrounding deaths are as important or even more important than the numbers. It's not logical, but damned if humans have ever been logical. I'd presume that some of the reaction to Titanic was the fact that this ship represented one of the biggest, most visible technological achievement of humankind, so to have her sink on her maiden voyage was a bit of a shock to the psyche of the average citizen.
But really, more to the point, Titanic is a compelling story, in the same vein of classic Shakespearean tragedies. Man's hubris challenges God/nature ("God himself could not sink this ship"), and after a perfect storm of events and mistakes, man is proven to be quite fallible, with tragic consequences for the innocent souls on board. There are many individual stories as well. The stoic, grim professionalism that saw the ship's orchestra continue to play when their own doom was at hand. The gentleman and his manservant who adorned their tuxedos, declaring that they would "meet their end as gentleman." The woman who refused to be evacuated without her husband, and insisted her maid take her own place in the lifeboat.
How could these stories not capture the hearts of people?
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Allow one to place politicians where one chooses and this could be a big seller.
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On 9 October 1912 White Star withdrew Olympic from service and returned her to her builders at Belfast to be refitted to incorporate lessons learned from the Titanic disaster 6 months prior, and improve safety. The number of lifeboats carried by Olympic was increased from twenty to sixty four and extra davits were installed along the boat deck to accommodate them. Also, an inner watertight skin was constructed in the boiler and engine rooms, to create a double hull. Five of the watertight bulkheads were extended up to B-Deck, extending to the entire height of the hull. This corrected a flaw in the original design, in which the bulkheads only rose up as far as E or D-Deck, a short distance above the waterline. This flaw had been exposed during Titanic's sinking, where water spilled over the top of the bulkheads as the ship sank and flooded subsequent compartments. In addition, an extra bulkhead was added to subdivide the electrical dynamo room, bringing the total number of watertight compartments to seventeen. Improvements were also made to the ship's pumping apparatus. These modifications meant that Olympic could survive a collision similar to that of Titanic, in that her first six compartments could be breached and the ship could remain afloat.
At the same time, Olympic's B-Deck underwent a refit, which included extra cabins (the parlour suites which proved popular on the Titanic were added to the Olympic), more cabins were fitted with private bathing facilities, and a Cafe Parisian (another addition that had proved popular on the Titanic) was added, offering another dining option to first class passengers. With these changes, Olympic's gross tonnage rose to 46,359 tons, 31 tons more than Titanic's.
RMS Olympic
Problems with radio communication --- obsolete technologies, monopoly power, the need for regulation --- all became clear after the loss of Titanic. Ir is a fascinating story and one the geek should know better.
Radio and the Titanic
They might be onto something.
Granted, it would be rather limited, but imagine virtually witnessing Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, or crossing the Delaware River with George Washington.
In a world of the blind, the one-eyed man is king--and the two-eyed man is a heretic.
Some Titanic enthusiasts are already pointing out errors, such as the rate of list and the time scale of the flooding; I can't speak for this having not seen the video but my analysis of how the ship sank is here. Personally I have doubts as one person who worked on the project is a known plagiarist and one of the authors is a cherry picker of data (he insists that the ship had a massive list to port when she went under but only one of the three survivors who was on the Titanic till the last mentioned it, and his evidence is suspect, like claiming he was in freezing cold water for hours without any ill effect whatsoever). BTW, my own Titanic stuff is on this page.
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Also worth noting: The 1918 Spanish Flu killed more people than WWI, possibly more people than WWII. And unlike the typical flu which mostly kills young children and the elderly, most of the Spanish Flu deaths were young adults. (It caused the body's immune system to overreact, meaning people with the stronger immune system were more likely to die from it.)
The Titanic sank, it has sunk.
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It lost the data feed and the app displayed the icebergs at the default coordinates - a farm in Kansas.
The devs wanted to put an error message about the data being unreliable but marketing said it would confuse the users and UX said it would spoil the flat look.
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Why are they still spending money on this. My second was "Wow, the thousands of man hours" of mechanical or electrical engineering, physics, archaeology, graphic design, and several other -ologies that went into producing this. My third thought was how much expertise went into this and how little of it will be passed,due to the amazing level of detail, along to future projects. My fourth though was I should of logged in instead of ACing this, my last AC was +5 informative.
Don't worry, this one won't.
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Many of the details are fascinating .. but I'm not sure they got it all quite right. Nice details about the lifeboats, etc.
But watch how the stern levels out after it breaks away from the bow. I read many reports that the stern went vertical, not horizontal.
But the "camera" direction was horrible. The close ups of the life boats were agonizing.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Although impressive it still isn't quite accurate in some parts. For example this and many simulations still forget that Titanic stopped, but then resumed moving only to discover they were taking on even more water, then stopped again. It was this action that sped up the sinking.