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."
posted by Blazecock Pileon
on Feb 19, 2011 -
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Halation can interfere with your brain making out the shapes of distorted words, such as on
passing highway signs. Banned from advertising in F1 racing, a major tobacco company that sponsors a team came up with a
novel design solution that may play on this visual effect to an opposite, suggestive effect, depending on the observer. European officials were
not amused, going so far as to call the design "subliminal". Ferrari responded by
removing traces of the design from its cars.
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posted by Blazecock Pileon
on May 13, 2010 -
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