Merry Christmas! and Animation
Thursday, December 24th, 2009Merry Christmas!
Here’s a short animation to inspire some holiday cheer, made in cinema 4D.
Merry Christmas, 2009 from Michelle Reinke on Vimeo.
Archive for the ‘Video’ Category
Inner Ear in 3D
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009I rendered out the vestibulocochlear model and threw it into VRWorx, a simple little program that doesn’t offer the best interactive features, but is great for simply displaying a model or virtual scene.
Gow-Gates Nerve Block Animation
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009Inspirational Image Friday: multimedia presentation by Frans Lanting
Friday, May 15th, 2009Anyone’s work that involves “visualizing the story of life” has me hooked. Below is the Ted Talk presentation/ slideshow of Frans Lanting: “A Journey Through Time.” This multimedia work that premiered in 2006 involves great photography, dialogue/poetry, and music by Philip Glass, and aims to tell the story of life. It starts from the ancient alien-like world of earth and moves forward, successfully conveying the beauty of evolution and humanity’s place in it.
Unlike other largely inspirational visual & scientific works, this one succeeds in being nearly as informative as it is beautiful. Useful facts are cited throughout the journey, and there’s a great visualization tool of the photographs and their context in evolution on the www.lifethroughtime.com website.
Other Resources:
LIFE: A Journey Through Time – this includes a preview of the slideshow, and a unique interactive viewing method of the photographs in situ with their place in evolution.
AlloSphere visualization
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009There’s a Ted talk that describes the UC Santa Barbara based AlloSphere, an impressively immersive space for viewing scientific data. This 3 story sphere can hold about 20 researchers, all standing on a bridge running through the middle of this structure. It is connected to a super computer, and projects many data types, including visual sound mapping.
As one commentor put, X-men?
Some nice pieces of imagery are shown, but I’m curious what exactly they’re showing (and not showing) in the brain project. The cortex is displayed as an abstract cavernous space, but nature abhors a vacuum. The video said it was based on fMRI data, but is the positive space showing specific cell types, water density, etc? Or is it largely sound mapping? Maybe we’re getting a bat’s eye view of these structures.
Here’s a follow up interview from this speedy presentation: http://blog.ted.com/2009/04/allosphere_interview.php