I was recently blown away by the $300 short film sensation “Ataque de Panico”. Then along comes something even more extraordinary.

The Third & The Seventh is a bewilderingly beautiful world, which apart from the human and animals is created from the imagination of one man (Alex Roman) and a computer. Ladies and gents, we have arrived at the place where Computer Generated Imagery is indiscernible from reality. No in fact, it is enhanced reality.

Given the way the power of computer graphics, software and games are developing I find it both entrancing and disturbing that we will soon (perhaps within the next decade) be seeing such rich immersive environments be created in real time. It is becoming harder by the day to distinguish reality from the electronic version, which raises some interesting philosophical questions and potential design problems for humankind. Fancy a go in the Matrix anyone?

Ok enough preamble… enjoy this (recommend you click HD):

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

By the way, for all you aerodynamicists out there, yes I do think the wind turbine blades are back to front and they start turning too quickly, but I think we can forgive him this can’t we?