Mathematica in Arrival movie

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Hello everyone,

I was really happy to see Mathematica in Arrival - screen at 52:10 (link to full image)

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Just for fun :slight_smile:

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Have you seen this blog post: Quick, How Might the Alien Spacecraft Work? by Stephen Wolfram ?

Also this screencast: The Code Behind Arrival (The Movie) by Christopher Wolfram and this GitHub repo:

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I have not seen this before - links provided by you contain fantastic materials!

Thank you!

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What is the black-background editor in the bottom left corner? It doesn’t look like Mathemaitca.

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Hongliang I am not familiar with that editor in the film, but in case you didn’t know there is a DraculaTheme in the function repository.
https://resources.wolframcloud.com/FunctionRepository/resources/DraculaTheme

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Thank you! The DraculaTheme is the most beautiful notebook theme I have ever seen.

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The arrival of the beings is interesting, they don’t descend from the heavens, they materialize. That is, they have mastered the physical plane. Their ship cannily resembles a spore, a psilocybin spore. They have also mastered gravity as well. They are obviously technologically advanced culture. They do not come here to warn us, they come to welcome us. They can take a physical form but they are not inherently physical as they have no skeletal components. They need us, and they will return in 3000 years, but since their time frame is circular, they may already be here under a different guise - under our feet.
Have a look at McKenna’s “The Mushroom Speaks”, you’ll understand…