ArtSci Oregon

Entries to the 2020 #ResearchAsArt exhibition are now viewable at artscioregon.com/2020-gallery. Congratulations to the prize winners and thanks to everyone who submitted a piece! 🎉🎉

Wrapping up our 2020 Research As Art exhibition entries with this #SciArtTuesday from Josh Roering: "Airborne lidar image of Willamette River landforms near Salem, Oregon." #ResearchAsArt #SciArt @UO_Geology

#SciArtTuesday from Monika Ruwaimana: "Peat soil core samples with various stage of decay from Borneo, Indonesia. Radiocarbon dates shows that this peatland is 49000 years old, which put it as the oldest extant peatland in the world." #ResearchAsArt #SciArt @IE2_uoregon

#SciArtTuesday from Scott Fisher: "Obtained at Pine Mountain Observatory, this time-lapse shows the 18-mile wide asteroid 'Rebekka' occulting a star as it orbits the Sun. The images in the GIF are used to create a 3D model of the non-spherical asteroid." #ResearchAsArt #SciArt

#SciArtTuesday from @elleneischen: "Which shapes can be drawn with an unmarked straightedge and compass, if all edges must be the same length and all angles the same? The answer is tied to 'Gaussian periods,' certain sets plotted here." #ResearchAsArt #SciArt

#SciArtTuesday from @RachaelAllie: "This flake of hBN—a 2D material with unique mechanical and quantum properties—is thinner than the wavelength of visible light. Layers of varying thickness appear different colors, which helps us find flakes to study." #ResearchAsArt #SciArt

#SciArtTuesday from Peter Gilkey & Ekaterina Puffini: This is a picture of the geodesic structure of an almost affine Zoll manifold. It was created using Mathematica to illustrate the only known almost affine Zoll structure. It can be wrapped up to form a cylinder. #ResearchAsArt

#SciArtTuesday from Willem Griffiths: "Mouse retinal cell network extends across carbon nanotube forests. Blue neuronal cell bodies and orange processes accentuate scanning electron microscopy. This bionic implant prototype is designed to restore vision." #ResearchAsArt @UO_BioBE

#SciArtTuesday from Robert Dennis: "How sparsely can you pack marbles into a box so that when you shake it, they don't rattle around? The answer is as sparsely as you want! We connect a series of stable bridges and longer bridges means lower density." #ResearchAsArt #SciArt

#SciArtTuesday from Chris Sinclair: "These are my working notes for the last couple of months." #ResearchAsArt #SciArt #MathArt

#SciArtTuesday from Cruz Godar: "We think of fractals as 2D images, but 3D ones exist too. This is the Mandelbulb, arguably the most famous. Its features are infinitely detailed, and yet its overall structure is comprehensible — and beautiful." #ResearchAsArt #SciArt

#SciArtTuesday from Conor Rowland: "In an experiment exploring the biocompatibility of carbon nanotubes (green) with retinal neurons (yellow), we have taken this micrograph using a scanning electron microscope and examined the health of the network." #ResearchAsArt @PhysicsUo

#SciArtTuesday from @HeatherBleu: "Chimera zebrafish that is composed of two genetically distinct types of cells. Dashed red line outlines overgrown fin tissue that consists of donor cells. This research investigates how organ size and shape is controlled." #ResearchAsArt #SciArt

#SciArtTuesday from Aqsa Khan: "My video creates awareness and acknowledgement of the Gandharan materials present at the JSMA, so that the works of my ancestors is not forgotten in these foreign soils." #ResearchAsArt #SciArt Full video at artscioregon.com/2020-gallery

#SciArtTuesday from James Watkins: "Crystals with the same unit cell can take on different shapes. This SEM image of pure CaCO3 crystals shows some rhombohedral crystals, some scalenohedral (soccer ball) crystals, some cubic edges, and some wavy terraces." #ResearchAsArt #SciArt

#SciArtTuesday from Margaret Sereno: "Abstract fractal images activate brain regions involved in processing familiar objects and trigger object percepts (red outlines) similar to identifying familiar shapes in natural fractal objects (e.g. clouds, rocks)." #ResearchAsArt @UOPsych

#SciArtTuesday from Michael Hurst: "Although these organometallic complexes are made from the same metal (palladium), attached chemical groups drastically affect appearance and behavior. These striking colors can provide insight into structure and bonding." #ResearchAsArt #SciArt

Oooh if I could enter I would ya'll! Ya'll take advantage of this opportunity! Astrophotography, print artists, watercolor, pottery, you name it is eligible to submit their pieces. You don't want to miss this! #BlackToTheFuture Day is tomorrow!

#SciArtTuesday from @jjcmichel_jen: "Neuronal marker messenger RNAs expressed in a 5-day old zebrafish brain, visualized by fluorescence in situ hybridization using confocal microscopy." #ResearchAsArt #SciArt @IONatUO

#SciArtTuesday from Nick Sattler: "In this color-inverted video, light beams emanating from the optic disc reveal the structure of a mouse’s retina. This new method enables the visual field of mice to be mapped in 3-dimensional space for the first time." #ResearchAsArt @IONatUO

#SciArtTuesday from Pragalv Karki: "Crystal face (feat. Fido Dido) made using vibrational modes of designer acoustic crystals. Sound waves can be manipulated programmatically in acoustic crystals with uses in waveguides, acoustic lensing, & computation." #ResearchAsArt @PhysicsUo