Gallery: How Designers Recreated Alan Turing's Code-Breaking Computer for Imitation Game
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Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing with the code-breaking machine Turing calls Christopher. (Expand gallery to fullscreen for larger images.)
courtesy The Weinstein Company02Christopher-Int-Hut-11-2
The Christopher prop had to be able to be easily converted from its early stages to its nearly-complete form on the fly.
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This is the Christopher prop currently on display at Bletchley Park.
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Bletchley Park also has its own replica of Alan Turing's Bombe (shown here).
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The Christopher prop is remarkably similar to Bletchley's Bombe replica.
Maria Djurkovic/The Weinstein Company06Christopher-Int-Hut-11-sketch
Christopher in the film is a little larger than the original machine in order to make it an imposing feature in each scene.
Maria Djurkovic/The Weinstein Company07Int-Hut-11-with-Christopher
Christopher was located in Bletchley Park's Hut 11.
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Nick Dent designed Christopher using Illustrator with a CAD plug-in. This is his design for the front of the machine.
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This is Dent's design for the rear of the machine.
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Christopher was designed to be opened up so moviegoers could see the complexity inside.
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The prop was also designed to show various stages of completion.
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The bright red cords on Christopher give the appearance of veins flowing into the machine.
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Having a machine that opened up allowed the filmmakers to show Turing working on it.
