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.

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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.

This seems a little Unreal to me.

I prefer it with people...

[Anonymous Coward]

At least I can watch Leonardo DiCaprio's character die. That has to count for something.

Re:Far more people died in WW I and II

[Dutch Gun]

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?