GONDWANA ANIMATION: The up-to-date updated version
This is using new animated content, but the same HTML5 Open Web technology, and thus should run in any modern browser.
In the year 2000, we created an interactive animation on the Web of the breaking up of Gondwana. This was a small project to help disseminate the results of extensive scientific work on this subject by ITC geology professor Colin Reeves to the larger, non-academic public. It became rather popular, being by far the most-visited page on our website at the time, and it has been incorporated through the years in several places: In museum exhibits and even in a TV documentary...
In late 2015, we again received a request to re-use the application. By then we were a bit embarrased to comply, as by now the technology had become difficult to use (at the time we used MacroMind Director to create a Shockwave application). That's why we took a bit of effort to create this re-vamped version better suited for the Web of 2016...
And now, in 2024, almost a quarter century after its inception, we present again a new version, this time because the science behind the animation has progressed quite a bit in the last 25 years. The animation frames now reflect the latest insights, as explained in the renewed presentation about the research project.
This is using new animated content, but the same HTML5 Open Web technology, and thus should run in any modern browser.
You are free to link to, or copy and use the animation in its current form (but please be so kind as to inform us) – as long as you include the original copyright statement:
© 2000-2024 ITC-University of Twente
Animation software and website development by Barend Köbben (ITC), scientific work by Colin Reeves (ITC)
&
Maarten de Wit (University of Cape Town); last change October 2024