Click to play videoMumbai: Three-dimensional or 3D imaging brings to mind things flying straight at you from the screen, doesn't it? Well, there's more to 3D than what hits the eye.
Two lesser-known planets crashing into each other nearly four billion years ago, an event that transformed the Universe to what it is now. Feeling almost transported to that point in time are these children for whom it's quite literally a world of difference from what they read in their school text books.
Aditi, a student, says: "I think that having a two dimensional picture, we can't understand the depth of the Universe. Here we can understand very clearly what's an orbit or a layer of asteroids."
Call it the 3D effect if you will that comes at you like a bolt from the blue. Like these ice and dust particles that make up the planet Saturn's spectacular rings. And let's face it, it's virtually a space walk.
Piyush Pandey, Director of the Nehru Planetarium in Mumbai, says: "You can take a journey through the stars. The entire Universe envelops you because of this 3D immersive environment.
All that is made possible through digitised images captured from aerial observatories and space missions from time to time. This three-dimensional digital universe is powered by eight computers that generate graphics then and there, or what are called real-time graphics and six traffic signal-like projectors, which make this child's experience that of awe and wonder. Which is why the framed marvels of the universe are not even half as captivating.
A 3D imagery lends itself very well to experiential learning that's engaging and enjoyable at the same time.
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