Here are some of the winning photographs and illustrations from the 2009 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge:
Branching Morphogenesis
First Place, Illustration
Large scale templates from simulations of networking endothelial cells cultured on a 3D matrix were overlaid with more than 75,000 interconnected zip ties to show the complexity of an organic datascape and process.
Photo: Peter Lloyd Jones, Andrew Lucia, Annette Fierro and Jenny E. Sabin