Today the journal Science and the National Science Foundation announced the honorees for the 2010 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. Judges select winners from four categories: Photography, Illustrations, Informational Posters/Graphics and Non-Interactive Media. The NSF treats the contest as a way of engaging the public in scientific research. “How many people would have heard of fractal geometry or the double helix or solar flares if they had been described solely in words? In a world where science literacy is dismayingly rare, illustrations provide the most immediate and influential connection between scientists and other citizens, and the best hope for nurturing popular interest,” the foundation states. “Indeed, they are now a necessity for public understanding of research developments.”
Rough Waters – First place
Seth B. Darling and Steven J. Sibener; Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago
Trichomes (hairs) on the Seed of the Common Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) – Honorable mention
Robert Rock Belliveau
Centipede Millirobot – Honorable mention
Katie L. Hoffman, Robert J. Wood and Harvard University
Human Immunodeficiency Virus, 3D model – First place
Ivan Konstantinov, Yury Stefanov, Aleksander Kovalevsky, Yegor Voronin / Visual Science Company
Proposed Structure of Yeast Mitotic Spindle – Honorable mention
The Mitotic Spindle Group / University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Enterobacteria Phage T4 – Honorable mention
Jonathan Heras Equinox Graphics Ltd.
AraNet: A Genome-wide Gene Function Association Network for Arabidopsis thaliana – Honorable mention
Insuk Lee, Michael Ahn Edward Marcotte, Seung Yon Rhee Carnegie Institution for Science
Introduction to Fungi – First place
Kandis Elliot, Mo Fayyaz University of Wisconsin, Madison
Peter Crnokrak; The Luxury of Protest
Trash | Track – First place
Dietmar Offenhuber, E. Roon Kang, Carnaven Chiu, Armin Linke, Assaf Biderman, Carlo Ratti; Senseable city lab / MIT, supported by Waste Management, Qualcomm, Sprint, and the Architectural League NY
Visualization of the Whole Brain Catalog – Honorable mention
Drew Berry, Mark Ellisman, François Tétaz; The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
A Binary Quasar Caught in the Act of Merging – Honorable mention
Thomas J. Cox; Observatories of the Carnegie Institution
GlyphSea – Honorable mention
Amit Chourasia, Emmett Mcquinn, Bernard Minster, Jurgen Schulze; San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD
Everyday Einstein: GPS and Relativity – Honorable mention
Damian Pope, Greg Dick, Sean Bradley, Dave Fish, Roberta Tevlin, Steve Kelly, and Tim Langford; Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
For more information on the 2010 Visualization Challenge check out this week’s issue of Science.
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