Alice's Adventures in a Microscopic Wonderland

The winners of the 2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge have been announced. The awards are given to the best photographs, illustrations and interactive media that visualize science and technology.




Mad Hatter's Tea, winner of the Informational Graphics award, is taken from a book called Alice's Adventures in a Microscopic Wonderland. Colleen Champ and Dennis Kunkel, at Concise Image Studios, carefully built scenes from Lewis Carroll's story using microscope images of insects and other small animals.







String Vibrations, awarded an Honorable Mention in Photography, shows the path described by a rapidly-spinning string. Andrew Davidhazy of the Rochester Institute of Technology used a relatively long camera exposure to make the moving string appear to be a 3D object.



http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn14809