Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nicholas_r._van_der_meulen/?hl=en Cryonics Institute - https://cryonics.org/ Suspended Animation - https://suspendedanimationlabs.com/ Blender Artists - https://blenderartists.org/u/cryonaut/activity/portfolio Blender - https://www.blender.org/ Written Description of the Dewar Outside : You might be thinking, "What is this metal thing?". If not, cool... I once had a guy assume it was a refrigerator. He never even questioned it until I told him what it was. A lot of people see many things without any clue as to what they really are every single day and never really question anything. Well thinking this is a refrigerator or whatever without figuring out what it truly is, is like automatically assuming the first computer you ever saw was nothing other than a battery or something. Anyone who thought that, might not ever get to discover Blender... Along with everything else a computer is capable of. Imagine the same scenario for many other things. In this case, the metal thing is a cryostat. It is a large container filled with liquid nitrogen. The container is about 11ft tall and although liquid nitrogen is -196 degrees celcius, the outer layer of the cryostat is room temperature. Between the inner and outer layers is a vacuum without air like a thermos bottle. This way, the liquid nitrogen boils away at the slowest rate possible and the cryostat needs to be refilled less often. Why is it outside though...? That has to do with what is submerged in the liquid nitrogen and my own artistic expression. People are kept inside these cryostats. About eight people are kept in each one of these cryostats and maintained within cryostasis at freezing temperatures so they can be brought back to life in the future when it is possible to do so. There are various versions of cryostats that all look unique and that are used at different facilities, but this one specifically is used at the Cryonics Institute in Michigan. It is outside in this artistic rendition, because it represents the experience and the memories that the cryopreserved people have in cryostasis. They are mostly unknown, they are alone, and they are waiting for scientists to develop the technology to revive them. They are unconscious and unaware of their surroundings. To them, they might as well be anywhere. Although they are nevertheless alive, there is also no telling how much of their memories are retained since some amount of decay is likely involved and the cryopreservation procedure itself has a few harmful effects. As such with broken memories, perhaps only fragments of their personal lives and core understandings of nature remain etched into their minds. Hence the scattered pieces of the cryonics facility lay thrown about the forest floor as if it were a vague dream. What neural connections remain in the cellular structures of their brains may even be lost further during the reanimation process, like these pieces of the facility may be lost to this ever-changing environment.
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nicholas_r._van_der_meulen/?hl=en Cryonics Institute - https://cryonics.org/ Suspended Animation - https://suspendedanimationlabs.com/ Blender Artists - https://blenderartists.org/u/cryonaut/activity/portfolio Blender - https://www.blender.org/ Written Description of the Dewar Outside : You might be thinking, "What is this metal thing?". If not, cool... I once had a guy assume it was a refrigerator. He never even questioned it until I told him what it was. A lot of people see many things without any clue as to what they really are every single day and never really question anything. Well thinking this is a refrigerator or whatever without figuring out what it truly is, is like automatically assuming the first computer you ever saw was nothing other than a battery or something. Anyone who thought that, might not ever get to discover Blender... Along with everything else a computer is capable of. Imagine the same scenario for many other things. In this case, the metal thing is a cryostat. It is a large container filled with liquid nitrogen. The container is about 11ft tall and although liquid nitrogen is -196 degrees celcius, the outer layer of the cryostat is room temperature. Between the inner and outer layers is a vacuum without air like a thermos bottle. This way, the liquid nitrogen boils away at the slowest rate possible and the cryostat needs to be refilled less often. Why is it outside though...? That has to do with what is submerged in the liquid nitrogen and my own artistic expression. People are kept inside these cryostats. About eight people are kept in each one of these cryostats and maintained within cryostasis at freezing temperatures so they can be brought back to life in the future when it is possible to do so. There are various versions of cryostats that all look unique and that are used at different facilities, but this one specifically is used at the Cryonics Institute in Michigan. It is outside in this artistic rendition, because it represents the experience and the memories that the cryopreserved people have in cryostasis. They are mostly unknown, they are alone, and they are waiting for scientists to develop the technology to revive them. They are unconscious and unaware of their surroundings. To them, they might as well be anywhere. Although they are nevertheless alive, there is also no telling how much of their memories are retained since some amount of decay is likely involved and the cryopreservation procedure itself has a few harmful effects. As such with broken memories, perhaps only fragments of their personal lives and core understandings of nature remain etched into their minds. Hence the scattered pieces of the cryonics facility lay thrown about the forest floor as if it were a vague dream. What neural connections remain in the cellular structures of their brains may even be lost further during the reanimation process, like these pieces of the facility may be lost to this ever-changing environment.