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Show moreThis photograph is beautiful. Although it may only appear to be a few dark blobs in a sea of orange, it represents the greatest phenomenon in the Cosmos: the constant speed of light. The tiniest, faintest, black points in the center of the image are photons that left a cluster of galaxies 2 billion years after the Big Bang, and have ceaselessly battled the expansion of the Universe to land on the lens of a telescope on Earth. As the Universe expanded, it shifted what used to be green light (from the most ancient, long dead stars) into the infrared, more than three times redder than our human eyes can detect. This photograph is beautiful because a graduate student in Cleveland can peer beyond the mists of time to examine the ghosts of galaxies assembled at the dawn of the Universe. (12"x12" negative image from WIRCam at a wavelength of 2.25 microns, courtesy of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Archive, analyzed by J.R. Franck).
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Show more"Given a flaming crater that reaches temperatures well in excess of 750 degrees Fahrenheit, it's not hard to see why locals refer to this otherworldly place as the ""Door to Hell."" While officially named the Darvaza Crater, this formation is a reminder of humanities precarious relationship with nature. In 1971, Soviet scientists were exploring the natural gas reserves of the Karakum Desert, Turkmenistan when their drilling rig unexpectedly collapsed into an underground cavern. 44 years later, the flames are still raging. A testament to the importance of being cautious when working with our environment. This Photograph was taken by Neal Mathes on July 30, 2014 during a family trip through Central Asia."
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Show moreThe content of this image consists of a friend working on code in C++ in a dark room at night. The only light in the room is from the computer screen, and the shot is taken as he pauses to rub his eyes. The image was taken with a Nikon D7100 and a 300m lense. The photo was slightly edited in Photoshop to creating a lighting effect that centered on the code reflected in his glasses. This should be printed on a 24(W)X16(H) to fit the pixel count well.
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Show more"My Contour Nouveau piece is an overall drawing about what we've been doing in class. In my piece you can see a kid sitting at a table working on his own artwork and another kid's hand holding up things so she can draw her own hand. I selected five different cellular designs to incorporate into my piece. They include red blood cells, stem cells, pansy petal cells, wood cells and streptococcus cells. I chose the red blood cells to pattern the flower pot because the flower pot was green. Green and red are complimentary colors and look good together. I chose the stem cells because they looked different and made the walls stand out. I chose the pansy petal cells because I wanted the flower petal to be made of flower cells. I chose the wood cells for the floor, as it made sense. Finally, I chose the streptococcus cells to design the boy's pants because I had gotten strep the week before we started our Art Nouveau project and I wanted to know what the virus looked like."
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Show moreAn interesting plant whose branches followed a completely orderly pattern while rotating around the limb. This was taken at Mission San Jose in San Antonio, Texas. The camera used was a Nikon D7100 with a 300m lense. Print on 24(W)X16(H).
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Show moreThis graphic piece is inspired by imagery of fighter jets piercing the sound barrier and the science behind that process. As pressure builds progressively at the front of the jet, a cone is formed, which is effectively "pierced" when the jet breaks the sound barrier. This successive process, depicted in my piece, relates to the form of my favorite jet, the F-16.
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Show more"Noon on a Sunday afternoon, an Ailurus fulgens (Red Panda) wakes from a day nap astride Morus nigra (Blackberry) tree some 15 meters high. Rest is both relaxing, hunting, and camouflage. The subtle fur changes color along the ventral with the dorsal planes exhibiting a delightful contrast. The top fur resembles the red and dark brown soil; the lower coat blends with the darker tones of bark and shaded earth. With keen senses of smell, hearing, and eyesight Ailurus fulgens can identify components of its omnivorous diet atop the branches. Ultimately however, the red panda's draped limbs counter balance with its tail allowing carefree napping. 6/15/2014, Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, Chengdu, Sichuan, People's Republic of China"
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Show more"Shown is an evolving view of a hypothetical phase transition in the hot, early universe in which bubbles form, grow and eventually collide and coalesce. From left to right, the progress of the phase transition is shown. Bubbles of a new phase are created (yellow), which proceed to expand at relativistic speeds, creating density waves in the ambient matter (blue) as they grow. After the bubbles collide, a turbulent thermalization process takes place. Simulations of this transition were run using computing resources at Case Western Reserve University, Kenyon College, and the Ohio Supercomputer Center. Data from simulations was processed using Mathematica and rendered using 3ds Max."
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Show moreThis image was taken as I was trying to find interesting pictures of plants and flowers around my school. We had to get close, fill the frame and find life to capture. I found bees and flies, and was able to find this bee sitting on the flower. Print size: 8x10
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Show moreOnce a week, I teach an electronics class for high school girls at Beaumont School in Cleveland Heights. I couldn't find a basic electronics textbook I really liked, so I started drawing a comic book for them. This is one of the pages from that comic, which serves as a reference for the resistor color code. I find that the needs of technical communication "expressing a concept in multiple ways, showing how ideas relate to and build on each other, getting your point across whether the reader skims or ruminates" are perfectly suited to the words-and-pictures alchemy of comics. This page uses a combination of techniques I've learned from both engineering drafting and comic illustration, echoing engineering drawings in ligne claire style and making use, naturally, of color coding. And when I pass it out to my students, it's stapled like an old school `zine. Size: 9" by 12" Method: Pencil and ink on Bristol board, colored and lettered in Photoshop. This entry won second place in the CWRU category.
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Show moreThe idea for this project just popped into my head. I put a fire place and a recliner to give a look of old-time houses, like the inside of a brick house. I love those houses so I interpreted it into my piece. We studied Art Nouveau and had to incorporate patterns found under the microscope and depth of field throughout this piece. I used streptococcus cells because they were really simple cells to draw and perfect for the boy's shirt. For the chair I used onion skin cells because it looked like leather. I used stem cells to decorate the wall. They are circular and are a nice color. Lastly, I used Australian Pale Lager crystals as seen under the microscope for the floor. It's carpet, so I picked a weird, but cool pattern. Print size: 12x14
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Show morePicture captured of a praying mantis I captured in Rwanda, Africa. By far the most well-camouflaged organism I have ever encountered. Be sure to look carefully for the insect. Usually people first see the leg, which you can follow up to the rest of the mantis. There are very few representatives of the genus Oxylea in collections anywhere in the world, because no one can find them. This is probably a new species, and will be described and published in the next year or two.
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Show more"This cottage was erected in 1841 just outside of central London in the historic St. James Park. It served as a home to various bird-keepers and scientists alike, who studied seasonal habits of various waterfowl in more urban settings. The cottage survived air raids during the Second World War, and was operational until 1953. After ample renovations, it is now recognized as a London historic park. January 3, 2015"
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Show moreThis photo was taken one early morning when the dew was still visible on the tips of the moss. This image won an honorable mention for the high school category.
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Show moreGetting close, filling the frame, moving objects from the middle was my intended focus as I took many images of plants and flowers during class and on my own. I found this image and many others at the Botanical Garden and around my home and school.
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Show moreThis engineer was caught in a moment of confusion, as he was attempting to fix an error with the welding machine. There are many components to these welding rigs, including holding fixtures, robotic arms and more. Every part needs to work perfectly in order to meet customer completion times. There's a lot that could go wrong and this company has a deadline that must be met.
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Show more"This image is a three-dimensional reconstruction of microscopy data of the brain of an adult fruit fly dyed with fluorescent molecules. In blue, we see the nuclei of neurons which are expressing a gene called dati, which is a transcription factor, or a type of genetic switch, that is involved in the process of how females choose their mates. In red, we see the nuclei of cholinergic neurons, neurons that send excitatory signals to other parts of the body and brain, and in green, we can see the long projections of these neurons and where they connect. In our research, we have found that the gene dati needs to be expressed in cholinergic neurons in order for females to choose a mate once they have matured; if it is removed from these neurons, females will behaviorally remain as juveniles and reject the advances of any males. By looking at the overlaps of these colors, we can look for patterns in the connections formed by cholinergic neurons that express dati, in comparison to that those that do not. We hope to use this unique gene to help understand how decisions, modeled here in the choice of a mate in female flies, are encoded by networks of neurons, in brains both big and small. 3D image is digitally reconstructed in the program ZEN 2009 from 71 sequential 2D slices taken on a Zeiss 700 confocal microscope, and adjusted in Adobe Photoshop. *Image is currently sized at 18x36"
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Show moreThis photograph was taken with a digital microscope camera and the colors modified for aesthetic appeal using Photoshop CC. The image shows overgrown hair follicles and surrounding skin cells in a tissue sample from a mouse with skin fibrosis. The deep blue cells constitute the epithelial lining of the hair follicle shafts, and the pale tissues are the hair shafts proper. This image represents several years of work that the Atit Lab has put into successfully developing a transgenic mouse model for finding therapeutic treatments for skin fibrosis. This image won first place in the CWRU category.
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