Biologically-inspired computing for the arts scientific data through graphics /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Ursyn, Anna, 1955-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), 2012.
• Subjects: Biologically-inspired computing > Graphic methods.; Visual communication > Data processing.; Biological illustration.; Biologically inspired computing in relation to the aesthetics of presenting data and information; Cognitive thinking, visual thinking, visual literacy, visual communication; Computer graphics and computer science, computer art, nano art and liquid crystals; Exploring interactive aspects of visualization regarding water-related concepts; Inquiries about nature- or science-related art creation; Instructional technology with integrative approach; Investigating information visualization that links art, nature, and science; Science: biology and microbiology, physical geology, the cosmos, astrophysics, physics, geometry, fractals, liquid crystals, or other areas of interest; Shortcuts to integrative learning art, science, programming, and computer graphics; Teaching and learning science through computer art production; Visual presentation of scientific concepts and data, Displaying data through cognitive drawing
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"Images support connections between biology, engineering, and material sciences resulting in a growing partnership among academia, laboratories, and industry. Scientists focus on biology-inspired research to understand how biological systems work, and then create systems and materials that woul...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Bio-interfaces: designing wearable devices to organic interactions / Rachel Zuanon
• 2. Flow simulation with vortex elements / Mark Stock
• 3. Cooperation of nature and physiologically inspired mechanisms in visualisation / Mohammad Majid al-Rifaie, Ahmed Aber, John Mark Bishop
• 4. 0h!m1gas: a biomimetic stridulation environment / Kuai Shen Auson
• 5. Bridging synthetic and organic materiality: gradient transitions in material connections / Hironori Yoshida
• 6. Sustainable cinema: the moving image and the forces of nature / Scott Hessels
• 7. Seeing the unseen / Eve Andrée Laramée ... [et al.]
• 8. NanoArt: nanotechnology and art / Cris Orfescu
• 9. Nature related computerkunst / Wolfgang Schneider
• 10. Biological translation: virtual code, form, and interactivity / Collin Hover
• 11. Looking at science through water / Anna Ursyn
• 12. Visual tweet: nature inspired visual statements / Anna Ursyn
• 13. Digital approaches to visualization of geometric problems in wooden sangaku tablets / Jean Constant
• 14. Drawings from small beginnings / Hans Dehlinger
• 15. On the designing and prototyping of kinetic objects / Scottie Chih-Chieh Huang, Shen-Guan Shih
• 16. A new leaf / Liz Lee
• 17. Science within the art: aesthetics based on the fractal and holographic structure of nature / Doug Craft
• 18. Getting closer to nature: artists in the lab / James Faure Walker
• 19. Drawing/Digital/Data: a phenomenological approach to the experience of water / Deborah Harty
• 20. From zero to infinity: a story of everything / Clayton S. Spada, Victor Raphael.