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The International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge 2010

Blazecock Pileon — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 06:26:45 -0800

The International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge 2010 - "Researchers are generating mind-boggling volumes of data at exponentially increasing rates. The ability to process that information and display it in ways that enhance understanding is an increasingly important aspect of the way scientists communicate with each other and—especially—with students and the general public. That's why, for the past 8 years, Science and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) have co-sponsored annual challenges to promote cutting-edge efforts to visualize scientific data, principles, and ideas. This year's awardees span scales from nanoparticles to colliding galaxies, and from microseconds to millennia."

Concealed Neuroanatomy in Michelangelo's Separation of Light From Darkness

homunculus — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:16:11 -0800

In a Michelangelo Fresco, Visions of a Brain Stem. "It has been hiding in plain sight for the past 500 years, and now two Johns Hopkins professors believe they have found it: one of Michelangelo’s rare anatomical drawings in a panel high on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo was a conscientious student of human anatomy and enthusiastically dissected corpses throughout his life, but few of his anatomical drawings survive. This one, a depiction of the human brain and brain stem, appears to be drawn on the neck of God, but not all art historians can see it there."

Strangers in the mirror.

1f2frfbf — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 06:27:11 -0800

Prosopagnosia, or face blindness, is an impairment which limits one's ability to recognize faces (previously). As part of the World Science Festival, Robert Krulwich interviews two famous suffers of this little known disease: the portrait artist Chuck Close and the neuroscientist and writer Oliver Sacks. Want to find out where on the scale you sit? Try the celebrity test mentioned in the interview here (also previously).

The Beautiful Mind

homunculus — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:18:20 -0800

The Beautiful Mind. An online gallery of neuroscience photographs. [Via]

...in my sobriety, behind the old facade

Wolfdog — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:08:03 -0800

Art Deliverance - Alex Klochkov's gallery of abandonment from the Soviet Union. There's next to no explanation of the photos, unfortunately. Indirectly via Retrospectacle's post about the brain lab.

BrainPaint

homunculus — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:11:58 -0800

BrainPaint. Beautiful, real-time images created through neurofeedback by using the electrical activity of the brain to seed fractal patterns.

Vision without Sight

Zed_Lopez — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:24:13 -0800

Esref Armagan is an accomplished painter, and has been blind since infancy. Brain scans show he uses his visual cortex while drawing, but not while imagining an image (as a sighted person does.)

Through the Looking Chords

Gyan — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:19:11 -0800

Dr Hugo's Museum of the Mind - Synaesthesia

!Surréalisme!

y2karl — Sun, 20 Jan 2002 21:07:34 -0800

!Surréalisme! Home of, among many wonders, The Surrealist Compliment Generator--May clinging breasts always come to your aid in the kitchen, was mine--and you can talk to ESMÉ, Cadaveric Enigma Engine Generator*, visit The Department of Objects and Delusions or the cool links page.--and I quote: USENET: For those willing to brave the endless morass of asses, alt.surrealism... Now there's a tagline for here embedded in that there sentence!