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April 13th 2011 05:56
As seen on the National Geographic, a 3-D HIV and a fungi forest are among winners of the 2010 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.
The annual competition awards entries that "engage people worldwide and convey science close up in novel and visually stimulating ways". Judging criteria include visual impact, effective communication, freshness, and originality.
Below are a few of this year’s winners, click the link on top of page for to view the complete set on the original article.
The most detailed 3-D model yet of the HIV virus won first place for illustrations in the 2010 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. The two-tone colour scheme shows HIV (orange) attacking and fusing with an immune cell (grey). The triangular cut-away shows how the virus integrates itself to turn the cell into a virus factory.
All manner of fungi sprout in a detail from an educational poster that won first place in the Informational Graphics category. Depicted species include those found in cheese, beer, bread, and even hibernating bats.
In a 3-D image, a bacteriophage aggressively attacks a bacterium "B-movie horror style," according to creator Jonathan Heras of Equinox Graphics, Ltd. Bacteriophages are viruses with "alien, spindly legs" and sucker-shaped mouths used to "relentlessly pursue their prey," Heras said in a statement. The viruses hijack bacteria's biology and use the victims as virus "replication factories," he said.
A microscope-enabled close-up of hairs on the seed of the common tomato won an honourable mention in the photography category.
The hairs secrete a mucus that appears as a clear membrane at the edge of the seed, according to photographer Robert Rock Belliveau, a retired pathologist. This mucus has several purposes: killing predators with a natural insecticide, preventing the seed from drying out, and anchoring the seed to the soil.
Snagging first place for photography, this micrograph—a photograph taken through a microscope—shows the rippling surface of a single layer of molecules.
The annual competition awards entries that "engage people worldwide and convey science close up in novel and visually stimulating ways". Judging criteria include visual impact, effective communication, freshness, and originality.
Below are a few of this year’s winners, click the link on top of page for to view the complete set on the original article.
HIV in 3-D
Fungus Poster
'Horror' Virus
Tomato-Seed 'Hair'
The hairs secrete a mucus that appears as a clear membrane at the edge of the seed, according to photographer Robert Rock Belliveau, a retired pathologist. This mucus has several purposes: killing predators with a natural insecticide, preventing the seed from drying out, and anchoring the seed to the soil.
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