NSF: Int'l Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge

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NSF: Int'l Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge

Post by bystander » Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:47 pm

International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge
Science/NSF - 2010 Feb 18
Challenge Synopsis

Some of science's most powerful statements are not made in words. From the diagrams of DaVinci to Rosalind Franklin's x-rays, visualization of research has a long and literally illustrious history. To illustrate is to enlighten.

How many people would have heard of fractal geometry or the double helix or solar flares if they had been described solely in words? In a world where science literacy is dismayingly rare, illustrations provide the most immediate and influential connection between scientists and other citizens, and the best hope for nurturing popular interest. Indeed, they are now a necessity for public understanding of research developments.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) and Science created the International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge to celebrate that grand tradition--and to encourage its continued growth. The spirit of the competition is for communicating science, engineering and technology for education and journalistic purposes.

Judges appointed by the National Science Foundation and the journal Science will select winners in each of five categories: photographs, illustrations, informational graphics, interactive media and non-interactive media. The winners will be published in a special section of the journal Science and Science Online and on the NSF Web site. One of the winning entries will be on the front cover of Science. In addition, each winner will receive a free, one-year print and on-line subscription to the journal Science and a certificate of appreciation.

We urge you and your colleagues to contribute to the next competition. Find out more about guidelines for submissions including entry forms.
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Past Winners of the International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge


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Re: NSF: Int'l Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge

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Art Neuendorffer

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Post by bystander » Thu Feb 18, 2010 11:12 pm

I haven't a clue to the meaning of the above response, and I'm not really sure I want to know.

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Post by geckzilla » Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:41 am

Neufer's references are sometimes so esoteric that only he knows. :-|
Just call me "geck" because "zilla" is like a last name.

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Re: NSF: Int'l Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge

Post by BMAONE23 » Fri Feb 19, 2010 5:43 pm

bystander wrote:I haven't a clue to the meaning of the above response, and I'm not really sure I want to know.
Seems to me that He is making a Visual Comparison between Pile of Rubble and Barney Rubble

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Re: NSF: Int'l Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge

Post by bystander » Fri Feb 19, 2010 5:49 pm

But what does that have to do with this thread? :?

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Re: NSF: Int'l Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge

Post by BMAONE23 » Fri Feb 19, 2010 5:55 pm

Perhaps you are Challenged by his Visualization

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