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By Alex Antunes | February 13th 2009 02:06 PM | 2 comments | Print | E-mail | Track Comments
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About Alex Antunes

In "The Sky By Day", Dr. Alex Antunes serves twice-weekly slices of life from the sometimes strange, sometimes oddly normal workday of a NASA astrophysicist. Readers get the inside scoop on what... Full Bio

Just a little weekend tidbit, art from the science world. Sometimes, during talks, I'll see art where others see just a data or figure. Here are two cases from a recent conference that I love.

This one could be called "Relationship between a CME-driven shock and a coronal metric type II burst", excerpted, from Y. Liu. But I prefer to call it 'sunset on the sea':


data as art

If you click on the image, you can see the full data plot, taken (without forewarning to the scientists) from their online powerpoint slides.

This one is either "STEREO small ICME activity" by K.E.J. Huttunen, or "butterflies".


data as art

Currently, I'm comparing two different models for an erupting CME, one an idealized fluxrope 'loop' and the other a direct reconstruction of the data. Neither evokes the real world such as the two above, n
or do they have sufficient information density to give the stronger pallet of the other datas. In short, they're ugly and jaggy. But it is fun to look at data in different ways. Which color is better?


data as art
data as art

Until next week,

Alex

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Hi Alex - Nice twist on science.
I once stumbled upon a paper by M. Zingale et. al.: "Helium Detonations on Neutron Stars", when it was published back in 2001. In the paper the team presents some visualisations of their simulations. Those images are absolutely stunning. I always thought it was a pity that they were "only science results". Check them out at http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/mzingale/xray_gallery/.

Regards

- Frank

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The Zingale plots are fantastic, #3 is like storm-swept waves.  Thanks for the link!  If we get enough of these, maybe we can reserve an art gallery for a showing (okay, a silly dream, but it's still be neat).
Cheers,
Alex


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