Visualizing a single, public body
The mesh body of a human form floats over the Brooklyn Bridge. Dots of color, embedded with video testimonials, share the collective health problems of 9/11 survivors. In this incarnation,...
Jul, 01, 2008
A physically-based facial muscle model for animation
He speaks: “Algorithm.” And you can just about read his lips.
The movie was created using muscle-driven physics-based animation. Other techniques might produce images that look...
Oct, 01, 2007
A novel approach to publishing for large research projects
When a large research project generates lots of data over a long time, that data can tell many different stories. Such was the case when the ENCODE (Encyclopedia of DNA Elements) project geared up to...
Oct, 22, 2012
Using packing software to convey humanity’s complex relationship with HIV in short films or images
Three-D animators have long sought algorithms that can pack odd-shaped things into tight spaces. Now, Graham Johnson, PhD, a QB3 Faculty Fellow in bioengineering at the University of California, San...
Feb, 19, 2013
A safe haven for asking fundamental, wide-ranging questions
In the summer, it can be hard to find a place to sit at the Santa Fe Institute. Much of the year, only about a dozen researchers make their home at the multidisciplinary research organization. But in...
Oct, 01, 2006
2-D visualizations by HemoVis software leads to faster, more accurate diagnoses
To diagnose heart disease noninvasively, scientists combine 3-D visualizations of the heart and blood vessels (reconstructed from CT scans) with computer simulations of blood flow. Typically, a...
Jan, 02, 2012
Cultured brain cells draw pictures
MEART’s creators link the basic components of the brain (isolated neurons) to a mechanical body (robotic arms) through the mediation of a digital processing engine across the Internet. The goal...
Oct, 01, 2010
Competition inspires model improvements
During the summer of 2009, the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility in Stockholm dangled a nearly $10,000 cash prize in front of neuron modelers and challenged them to do better. And...
Jan, 01, 2010
A recognition of biocomputing's successes and a prediction of what's to come
The last ten years have seen huge leaps in biomedical computing. We now have new ways to integrate and understand vast quantities of data; the capacity for multi-scale biological modeling; and a...
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Jun, 01, 2005
The study of HIV evolution is not only critical to fighting the virus; it has also driven advances in the computational tools used to study evolution in general.
When Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, it would be decades before HIV would jump from monkeys to humans and set off a devastating worldwide pandemic. But evolution is at the heart of...
Jul, 01, 2009