ART GALLERY

Spheres in Space

Posted April 14, 2000 · Issue 76

Art for Science's Sake

Simon Thomas:

Simon Thomas' "Fir Sphere"
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Simon Thomas' "Fir Sphere" is one of a number of pieces produced through the collaborative Mathematics and Art Project , "Order in Space'', which brings together mathematicians from Hewlett-Packard's Basic Research Institute (BRIMS) and artists, attempting to create a synthesis of their ideas.

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BuckyBinder

"A proposed modification of a Cram hemi-carceplex
binding C60 (M. Diedrich and K. N. Houk)"
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At chemist Nicholas C. DeMello's site,Chemgallery, we find images created with a combination of software including POV-Ray, Photoshop, LightWave, Chem3D, BBEdit , along with his own proprietary programs. The art illustrates some of the research of Prof. Ken Houk's group at UCLA.

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Simulated Spheres in Space

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At The Center for Scientific Computing in Finland, The Visualization Group has worked with T. Ala-Nissila of the Research Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Helsinki to come up with a set of animations representing gracefully dissolving droplets.

Kit Warren is an artist, freelance designer, and gallery curator for HMS Beagle. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Previously Featured Art

Our Fine Feathered Friends: Featuring ornithology collections.: (Posted March 17, 2000 · Issue 74)
Art on The Molecular Level:: Explorations of disease on the molecular level, digital and oil works.; (Posted Feburary 18, 2000 · Issue 72)
Botanica Online:: Botanica: Contemporary Art and the World of Plants, plus links to the Yale Medical Library and Fuchs Botany; (Posted January 21, 2000 · Issue 70)
Bugs Online: Featuring the bejeweled works of the "Wonderful: Caddis Worm" and Joseph Sturm's detailed insect illustrations; (Posted December 24, 1999 · Issue 69)
Send in the Clones: The Seedy Opera premiered at the 1999 Ig: Nobel Prize Ceremony on September 30, 1999 at the Sanders Theatre of Harvard University; (Posted November 26, 1999 · Issue 67)
Images of Spooky Scans, featuring images from the Combining: TMS and fMRI Localisations of Function Web page and the Kirilian Photography Experiments page of the Kirilian Cameras Web site; (Posted November 15, 1999 · Issue 66)

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