: The visual effects team, led by Paul Franklin and advised by Nobel laureate Kip Thorne, published actual scientific papers on the rendering techniques developed for the film.
: One hour on this planet equals seven years on Earth, a concept visually emphasized by the ticking soundtrack. 4. The Endurance and Docking Scene
: While many shots used CGI, the film also utilized large-scale miniatures and practical sets to maintain a grounded, tactile feel.
When Cooper enters the black hole, he finds himself in a "Tesseract," a three-dimensional representation of a five-dimensional space.
The Endurance is the crew's ring-shaped home, designed to rotate to provide artificial gravity for the astronauts.
: One of the film's most intense visual sequences involves Cooper attempting to dock a Landers craft with the spinning, damaged Endurance while plummeting toward a planet's atmosphere.