Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge 2006

October 4, 2006 10:13 PM

Scientific visualization challenge 2006: This year's winners captured inner details of a child mummy, mathematical surfaces rendered as glass objects, the highest mountain on Earth, air traffic by night, etc...
posted by dhruva (10 comments total)

Amazing stuff! Thanks!
posted by tickingclock at 10:44 PM on October 4, 2006

Surely they should have labelled 'Highest Mountain' as 'Tallest Mountain'? Its not really that high, in fact it sits quite low. Sorry for the pedantry - great post!
posted by Kiwi at 11:38 PM on October 4, 2006

Great. Thanks.
posted by peacay at 2:21 AM on October 5, 2006

Awesome. Here's a companion piece that runs along the same lines: The Art of Science 2006 Online Gallery.
posted by heylight at 3:52 AM on October 5, 2006

Also: WOW!, that Air Traffic piece is just beautiful.
posted by heylight at 4:08 AM on October 5, 2006

I love the way that one of them uses chalk on a blackboard rather than computer aided or high resolution or any other form of technogically mediated imagery. There's something really cool about old-school coloured chalk.
posted by handee at 4:09 AM on October 5, 2006

The Nikon Small World Microphotography competition recently declared winners also. Great stuff.
posted by MetaMonkey at 4:41 AM on October 5, 2006

I saw the Air Traffic piece a while back; it got me fiddilng with Processing, which has proved an entertaining (if not quite enterprise ready) way to while away some time.
posted by Luddite at 8:14 AM on October 5, 2006

Those glass objects are beautiful! I wonder if it would be possible to make them in real life, or if they'd be too fragile.
posted by Quietgal at 7:47 PM on October 5, 2006

Quietgal: Here's this guy who makes klein bottles out of glass.
posted by dhruva at 8:40 PM on October 5, 2006