Visualization Challenge Winners on Display at Complex

Five winners of the 2009 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge are on display at the Santa Fe Complex following the the Art & Science of Systems Biology which took place March 26-27.

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the journal Science, this competition honors extraordinary photographs, illustration, videos, and graphics that reveal intricate details of life and the world around us—down to the smallest scale.

Illustrators, photographers, computer programmers and graphics specialists from around the world were invited to submit visualizations that would intrigue, explain, and educate. This year, there were 130 entries from 14 countries.

The winning entries communicate information about mathematical theory with a rendering of Kuen’s surface; use interactive media to teach high school students about the intricate cycles and pathways that keep the cell alive by generating and burning energy; use video to show how dollar bills can be used to build a complete picture of how people move from place to place in the United States; and more.

The winning entries on display at the Complex include:

Illustration

• Branching Morphogenesis
• Jellyfish Burger
• Kuen’s Surface: A Meditation on Euclid, Lobachevsky, and Quantum Fields

Photography

• Flower Power
• Save Our Earth. Let’s Go Green

For more information about the Challenge, click here. To watch a YouTube video of the winning entries, click here.