Wednesday, 10 December 2014

Are scientific visuals art?

Design of Science

Wired compiled 10 research graphics that visually standout. They are often glanced at or overlooked within the design community simply because of functional nature of material they are asscociated with even though this seems unfair.


This visual above demonstrates the "waggle dance" done by honeybees in there hive. It involves and series complicated steps that inform other bees of there exact location. The image above shows the steps of 742 waggle dances by individual bees. Using this data scientists hope to make honeybee robots and that can replicate this data. The visual itself creates a nice effect with intense colours. The image almost looks monochrome if it wasnt for blackened areas and a hint of yellow in the centre.

No comments:

Post a Comment