[Fsf-friends] volunteers needed to develop an animation for rotary grade seperator

[Kush]

Hi all,

I wonder if there could be a way for school or college kids to make an 
animation of the rotary grade seperator (please see anangpur.com 
/anangpur.org or http://geocities.com/brownie216in/rotary.pdf)

using the open source 3d modelling software blender from blender.org. 
Blender has been used for making animation films and is a super tool for 
those who want to take up a career in design/animation.

The rotary grade seperator is an idea for substituting flyovers in urban 
transportaion projects and better town planning and has been concieved 
by architect Anil Laul of Delhi.

This could be a start for a new form of collaboration between hard 
pressed ngos/activists/free thinkers/ and youngsters (and 
corporates/philanthropists) with a lot of potential who want to learn a 
new tool besides contributing to society. Such an animation if produced 
as an end product (maybe as a result of a school or college level 
competition) could really build the momentum for adoption of open source 
technologies such as blender (substitute for autocad type softwares in 
some ways) while also giving publicity/recognition to innovative and 
enterprising concepts in the field of structures/urban art/town 
planning/transportation etc.

Buses, cars, 2 and 3 wheelers as well as pedestrians could be shown in 
the animation actually performing their activities so that viewers can 
easily understand the logic of the concept. Right now without reading 
the 12 page pdf file, it is not easy to understand the flyover 
substitute from the small image present at the website of anangpur.com. 
Also the key feature of no negative spaces could be presented much 
better with an animation.

Kush