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Prehistoric mollusk re-created with 3-D scanning
Jakob Vinther, Ryan Carney and Esben Horn get it. Their reconstruction of a Devonian Era (about 390 million years old) mollusk called a multiplacophoran shows a sophisticated understanding of how...
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Dinosaur Art: Some of the World’s Greatest Paleoart
New on bookstore shelves is a beautiful book entitled, Dinosaur Art: The World’s Greatest Paleoart. It is filled with great images of art that capture a wide range of artistic visions of the past. All...
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Bizarre Miniature Dinosaur Makes Really Big News
After sitting ignored since the 1960s, a tiny, toothy dinosaur has hit the front pages in a big way. Pegomastax africanus, a member of a once ubiquitous group of herbivorous dinosaurs called...
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A Revolutionary Look at the Tree of Life
OneZoom’s extraordinary new Tree of Life. Originating in the mid-1850‘s as a scribble in the notebooks of Charles Darwin, the Tree of Life concept has proved to be an incredibly daunting challenge for...
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Visualizing Genomes, Going in Circles
Humans strive to organize information so we can get our heads around it, understand it, and communicate it to each other. We do this by bringing order to the data. But too much information, even...
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About Our Logo and Blog Title
The chambered nautilus, Science Visualization’s logo, symbolizes the perfect union of visual arts and science. The shell’s logarithmic spiral, described as a “lustrous coil” by poet Oliver Wendell...
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The Giga Image Revolution
ESO’s nine-gigapixel image of the Milky Way The European Space Observatory’s recent announcement of a nine-gigapixel image of the central portion of the Milky Way galaxy, which includes some 84 million...
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Visualizing Life—on Land—in the Pre-Cambrian Era
In the 1990s, fossils of large forms of animal life predating the Cambrian explosion (about 540 million years ago) seemed to be spilling out of the ground everywhere. Discoveries at fossil troves in...
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Timeline Traveling
The ambitious ChronoZoom Project could make timelines boldly go where they’ve never gone before. One of the most daunting challenges in science visualization is creating timelines—mainly because...
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Unfeathered Birds Come to Life
Unfeathered cormorant by van Grouw. Note how her artwork shows clearly how the trachea does not follow the bones of the neck when in this position. In a world where traditional science illustration is...
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About Disintermediation
The mission of Disintermediation is to foster a dialogue about using modern, highly visual, communication platforms to foster public engagement with science. The blog stems from an interest in building...
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Alexander Wilson: The Artist Who Founded American Ornithology
Red-tailed hawk by Alexander Wilson The story of science visualization is one of transition. That’s what is fascinating about Alexander Wilson (1766 to 1813) who is credited with founding American...
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Eliminate the disconnect between science and the public
Many media professionals and educators worry that there is a “disconnect” between the public and science. This perception usually stems from ideas about the low quality of science content in media....
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3D revolution and the nanocosmos
Eleanor Gates-Stuart shows how making the very small very large can be a brilliant way of exploiting 3D technology. Photo: Katheime Griffiths Like outer space and the deep sea, the world of the...
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Big media companies don’t believe in synergy
The prevailing opinion among big media bosses and shareholders is that there is little financial benefit to one conglomerate incorporating diverse media platforms—television, publishing, film studios,...
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Science communication is booming
At least this is one message that Nature reporters came away with from the latest biennial World Conference of Science Journalists. While science communication may be booming, newspapers and broadcast...
View ArticleScience and Art at University of Florida
The University of Florida invited Science Visualization’s Chris Sloan to speak on February 9, 2012 concerning Analogous Thinking in Art and Science. This was part of an innovative Spring Speaker Series...
View Article“Lyuba: Baby Mammoth of the Ice Age” Exhibition
I Love “Lyuba: Baby Mammoth of the Ice Age” In 2007, baby mammoth Lyuba (Mammuthus primigenius) was found in the Yamal Peninsula of Siberia. Yuri Khudi, a Nenet reindeer hunter, found her frozen intact...
View ArticleHeavenly Jade opens at IDB
Heavenly Jade of the Maya is now open at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The exhibition celebrates the end of the thirteenth baktun on December 21, 2012 and the enduring and vibrant nature...
View Article“Heavenly Jade” Lecture at IDB
Dr. Francisco Estrada-Belli will give a lecture and tour of Heavenly Jade of the Maya on February 5th at 6:30 pm. “Perhaps what’s most fascinating about the Maya is how they built a sophisticated and...
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