Grow: Visualising Nature at Nanoscale

Abstract

Animating time and space: scientific virtual modelling, microscopy time-lapse and the fifth dimension. As a visual artist I am exploring methods of contemporary scientific research and digital technologies that create new ways of visualising virtual volumetric data of dynamic (or kinetic) microscopic systems. My current research project is an investigation of the aesthetic possibilities of computational extension of vision through the process of dynamic X-ray micro-computed tomography (micro-CT). With this science I am attempting to capture in 4D (3D + time) microscopy, the transformation of agricultural seeds as they germinate, from embryo to first leaf stage. I am visualising these dynamic data-sets in in a custom designed volume exploration and presentation tool Drishti. Show more