The University is pleased to announce that Timo Kunkel from the Department of Computer Science has been chosen as the winner of the centenary banner competition.

His photograph, showing the Wills Memorial Building, Park Street, the Triangle and surrounding area will be displayed on a banner 15 metres wide by six metres high from early June on the west-facing wall of the Physics Building, that is, facing Royal Fort Lodge when viewing the main entrance of Physics from the Sports Centre.

He and a guest will receive a prize of a free flight in the University of Bristol balloon, courtesy of BUHABS, the University's balloon society.

Speaking about his inspiration for the project, Timo said:

‘The idea behind the photograph was to create a small "planet" which is illuminated by the sun from on one side while the other side is at night. Due to the unusual projection, the interaction of light sources and shadows creates an interesting ambience. It also shows the continuation of changes of night and day and therefore represents time.’

The photograph is assembled out of two spherical panoramas captured with a Canon EOS 40D (one for the day image, one for the night). The source images have been geometry-corrected with DxO, assembled with Autodesk Stitcher, post processed with Adobe Photoshop and converted from an equirectangular to a polar and then to a hyperbolic projection using Flaming Pear Flexify.

The competition is part of the University’s ongoing centenary celebrations.