2004 Visualization Challenge Winners

ahab_2001 writes "Science Magazine and the National Science Foundation have announced the winners of their second annual Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. The winners and runner-ups -- in categories including photography, illustration, instructional graphics, and interactive and noninteractive multimedia -- are written up in a collection of articles (accompanied by a slide show) on the Science Web site. There's also information about the competition posted at NSF."

There are some great pictures here

[Pi_0's don't shower]

For those of you who are visual thinkers like me, this is extremely interesting. There are some wonderful pictures available at this site [sciencemag.org], and they tell you a bit about what happened there as well.

Excerpt: "This year's winners -- in categories including photography, illustration, instructional graphics, and interactive and noninteractive multimedia -- spanned the gamut, from intricate depictions of events at the cell membrane to the nighttime drama of a sonar-guided bat closing in on its prey."

It is really nice to see public outreach like this that still retains so much information. They should really give us scientists lessons on how to better do this.

Re:There are some great pictures here

[EvilGoodGuy]

Wow, that is some amazing stuff. The axial picture of DNA is my favorite. Even if you aren't looking to analyze these pictures scientifically, they are beautiful.

Slow downloads on the videos - anyone mirror?

[mc_barron]

Anyone out there know/have mirrors or torrent links? The downloads of all the cool videos in the slideshow are exceptionally slow...

slide3

[cyfer2000]

Slide 3 makes me thinking about van Gogh. link [sciencemag.org]

Re:slide3

[bkwebb]

Especially his worst picture titled "Roots and Tree Trunks".