vector maps of fluid motion created by filming jellyfish in their native habitats - a post I wrote for SciAm last week (via I Heart Copepods. You should, too. | Symbiartic, Scientific American Blog Network)
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Great post on Illustrators and the perils of the Internets by my co-blogger, Glendon Mellow (via It’s time for Illustrators to take back the Net | Symbiartic, Scientific American Blog Network)
image credit: @ Glendon Mellow Under CCL Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
check out Annawili’s website - more spectacular paper sculptures there.
Seahorse paper sculpture by Annawili Highfield
Listen up, Illustrators! Upcoming competition deadlines at SciAm’s Symbiartic. Don’t miss the opportunity to display your work!
Image credit: Sand Strings by Jie Ren (Graduate Student, Duke Physics)
cool photo of a carbon dust illustration in progress. The range of tones this medium is capable of is fantastic.
10.18.09 | carbon dust! I by joycehui on Flickr.
Here’s a great example of the ways in which illustration and photography can be mixed to create powerful imagery.
Process for graduation work “Composition of mammals” by Wataru Yoshida
Picturing Science - a new exhibit at the AMNH has some beautiful images on display. Check out the slide show: Picturing Science: Museum Scientists and Imaging Technologies | American Museum of Natural History
Stunning animation of what the Crab Supernova explosion may have looked like. And if you think this is cool, write your representatives and tell them to save the James Webb Space Telescope! Do it! NOW! The next decade of space exploration depends on it. (credit: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)
(Source: youtube.com)
After watching the explanatory video, I still don’t get how this illusion works! Wish my French were better…
(via Paris’ City Hall Showcases Mind-Bending Optical Illusion (VIDEO))
Mick Ellison has to be one of the greatest paleoartists of all time. Here, the AMNH gives a shout out to him and five other illustrators who have done work for the museum. Buttah. (via American Museum of Natural History News » Scientific Illustration at the Museum)
Design your own fractal at NOVA’s NOVA | Design a Fractal interactive.
