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« Jon Stewart: confronts NBC's Chris Matthews: New book is "a recipe for sadness" | Main | Games competition: This entry is a ball » October 3, 2007Flying bat graphics win award for Brown scientists; CT scan, nature tie for top photo prizeAmong the top winners of the 2007 Visualization Challenge Winners, the fifth annual, sponsored by the journal Science and the National Science Foundation, are a group of scientists from Brown, for turning the flight of a bat into elegant graphics.
INFORMATIONAL GRAPHICS: FIRST PLACE Kenneth S. Breuer Here's the Bat Flight Research page of engineer Kenneth Breuer and biologist Sharon Swartz. Two very different entries tied for the top photography award, one using technology to illuminate what's hidden, another using fingers and stones to reveal what's usually curled.
What Lies Behind Our Nose? Kai-hung Fung A computed tomography (CT) scan from a 33-year-old Chinese woman being examined for thyroid disease provided the raw data for Fung's rendering. He stacked together 182 thin CT "slices" to create a 3D image looking upward at the sinuses from underneath the head.
Irish Moss, Chondrus Crispus Andrea Ottesen The slimy, glistening mass of seaweed washed up on a sandy beach seems light-years distant from this feathery, dendritic image of Irish moss (Chondrus crispus) created by Andrea Ottesen, a botanist and molecular ecologist at the University of Maryland, College Park. "If you pull Chondrus out of the ocean, it's folded on itself--really curled up," she says. It wasn't until after she had "pressed every one of those little ends down with sea stones" and left it to dry for 2 days that the seaweed's beautiful, simple shape was revealed. Via BoingBoing Posted by Sheila Lennon
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my passport photo blogging since 2002 garden blogs archived headlines  Sheila Lennon is features & interactive producer of projo.com, the Web site of The Providence (R.I.) Journal Rhode Island |
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