Victor Franz Hess verified the existence of the highly-energetic cosmic radiation with the help of the so-called Steinke apparatus.
Today, the apparatus is still on display in a hut on the Hafelekar on Innsbruck's Nordkette. For the University of Innsbruck, we realised a film project that explains cosmic rays to visitors and shows how the Steinke apparatus works.
The visualisation of cosmic rays – something invisible to the eye – required some imagination. First of all, we had to understand the concept of cosmic rays and how cosmic radiation was measured back at Viktor Franz Hess' times.
We are happy with the outcome, an animated illustrative video that explains everything around cosmic radiation.
We did a little tour to the top of Innsbruck where the measurement station and the Steinke apparatus are situated. We then laser-scanned the whole apparatus to create a highly realistic 3D model from the data.
As you see above, the model is used in the explanatory video to show the measurement of the cosmic rays. For a non-physicist a complex procedure, but more understandable when visualised.
The project was initiated by the university of Innsbruck. As the nobel prize winner Victor Franz Hess was an Almuni of that university it was time to set a memorial at his former place of research.
If you want to know more about this project, please click on the image above.
