Scientific Illustration and Animation - Science topic

I totally agree that (good) illustrations are essential to draw in those who are unfamiliar with the work, especially those who are less scientifically inclined.

Simplest way to get a professional scientific drawing or a graphical abstract with low cost for your research report or paper:

A team of scientists and artists works on your illustration/journal cover/schematics instead of only one illustrator. It's quick and the price is very reasonable (with first-time-order discount).

Pretty interesting.

I wonder where our interest can meet at some point -- that is, if you tale a look at my projects.

Thanks, regards.

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What is available on Na K pump in video (they usually show a section of cell wall and not a 3D of the entire cell):

How the Sodium Potassium Pump Works - YouTube

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I did not make this video. I found it online on a website called McGraw Hill.

So this is how the Na+/K+ pump works. - 9GAG

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Captain here: it is a Sodium Potassium pump, it uses ATP (cellular Energy) to move Sodium (Na) out of the ...

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The audience intended here are fellow scientists. Scientists working in the same or a related field, who might take such a video as a basis to decide whether they will read the paper or not.

You are right, I could still add information on author affiliation (in one of the first statements). I am not so sure about methodological details. Often, I think, a methodological keyword is sufficient and scientists can figure out, which approach the project presented took. (Sometimes people ask that I should also look at appropriateness of this approach, soundness of data, validity of results, etc.. This will not be possible of course....)

Inkscape for 2D and Blender for 3D pictures.

Blender for animations

For instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RasemoYzsFA

 Hi Bakhta,

If you decide to make your own images:

Non specific, but a powerful tool for scientific drawing and retouching is "The Gimp".

You can use, for vectorial drawing and composition, "Inkscape". 

If you didn't know these free tools, you must try them. Good Luck,

Sergio

Visual representation of a journal article has always held some import in my opinion. There is no methodology/framework that would hold a graphical abstract to a higher degree than any other.  In my field I look at a graphical abstracts in relation to a PRISMA flowchart in a Systematic Review. A Graphical Abstract should allow readers to quickly gain an understanding of the main take-home message of the paper and is intended to encourage browsing, promote interdisciplinary scholarship, and help readers identify more quickly which papers are most relevant to their research interests. The Graphical Abstract should summarize the contents of the paper in a concise, pictorial form designed to capture the attention of a wide readership. Authors must provide images that clearly represent the work described in the paper. A key, summarizing figure taken from the original paper can also be submitted as a graphical abstract. A PRISMA flowchart is a reporting standard and is in its own way a brief summary “picture” or the highlights of the article in one summation. The graphical abstract of an article is just as important as or more so than the abstract itself. It is what the reader will see first and yes, I feel it should be part of the skillset of the researcher in any interdisciplinary field.

Hello Ajay,

Try these:

Hi Mohammed,

It looks like it has been done in a 2D vectorial software. Both Illustrator and Photoshop can handle 3D basic shapes, and you can find plenty of tutorials on how to change the textures using gradients, transparency or patterns to simulate the different materials. The molecules have been rendered separately and then overlaid. However, the optimal choice is to directly use a 3D software, which usually include the shaders for basic materials. Of course Blender is the first freeware choice among freare, but if you are new to 3D I would also suggest Art of Illusion, very simple yet powerful: http://www.artofillusion.org

Hope it helps, 

Giorgio

They both have their place, so it's not an either-or issue.

Procedural animation is necessary for massively complex systems, like fluid simulation over a rocky terrain, or for a virtual crowd, like an army.

You can't manually key-frame animate ten thousand soldiers.

However, artists prefer to have as much artistic control as possible, so there has been a lot of work in artistically "directed" procedural animation.

The "holy grail" is a blend where you have high-level artistic control over the crowd, or fluid behavior, but the details are generated procedurally.

This is just a natural evolution of animation.

The first animations were done frame-by-frame. Then key-frame animation allowed artists to automatically interpolate the in-between frames via splines, but still doing it for every joint in a character.

Then IK and bio-mechanical simulation + AI (e.g. Endorphin) allowed to only specify the foot and hand movements, or even just the high-level character movement and automate the joint angle animation.

Crowd-sim systems, like Massive allow an even higher-level control for an entire crowd.

So, we've been using procedural animation ever since we stopped manually specifying character joint angles for each frame!

It really comes down to productivity.

Sure, you could hire a thousand very skilled artists (if you have the budget) and manually animate everything.

But we all have deadlines and the whole point of using computers is to automate tedious things.

Manually rigging and key-frame / IK animating 10000 soldiers, or the collapse of a wall made of 8000 bricks, fall under tedious, in my book.

I propose this solution:

- Transform the models in point cloud;

- Regiter all models with respect to a reference (eg CAD model);

- Save the new point cloud;

- By using Matlab, import clouds of points and, for each point, evaluate the average.Regarding the points to consider in the average, this depends on how the models are; they may be the respective points or those closest to each point of the reference model

An image, provided it's a good one, really is worth a thousand words. I had some experience in working with an illustrator to produce a single image which conveys a new model for microbe-host interaction. With careful consideration, and good cooperation between researcher and illustrator, the results can be rather effective. And it does not come cheap either, so I imagine you could certainly complement your income with this kind of work. So yes, if you are good, there will certainly be demand for your skills.

Good luck.

Very interesting question. In yet another moment of synchronicity (is it happening only to me?), I was just exploring medical and scientific illustrators resources. However, I am myself an expert in neither exact science nor visual communications. That is why I will just give you some references, I believe I saw articles/info on the history of scientific illustration.

Some of these links may be familiar to you:

Association of Medical Illustrators - http://www.ami.org/medical-illustration/

BioCommunications Association - http://www.bca.org/

Ophthalmic Photographers Society - http://www.opsweb.org/

Journal of Bio communication - http://www.jbiocommunication.org/

You can also see similar discussions in these RG topics:

Otherwise, I have used visual support in my thesis - two caricatures on immigration by the artists Frederick Burr Opper and Friedrich Greatz.

I really love Opper's caricature

http://museum.msu.edu/index.php?q=node/257

but I can't comment on his art in general.

Besides, both artists mentioned above were artists rather than scientific illustrators.

GIMP and Inkscape are great software tools that are for free. Maybe this can help you.

I'm also distributing a free library of science and medical illustrations. Feel free to have a look. All these images are optimized for PPT presentations. Here is the link with more info: http://www.somersault1824.com/science-illustrations/

Cheers,

Luk

A picture/ image tells thousands of words in a click of eyes. That is why I agree with this...

SVG is probably better for application with few items (less than 1000? Depends really)

Canvas is better for thousands of objects and careful manipulation, but a lot more code is needed to get it working.

HTML Divs are clunky and do not scale, making a circle is only possible with rounded corners, making complex shapes is possible but involves hundreds of tiny tiny pixel-wide divs.

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Thanks Jana,

I agree that the purpose of the illustration has priority and that it is the task of the illustrator to make it fulfilling this purpose with the techniques at hand.

I make illustrations and animations for research scientists. I'm a research scientist myself, so I understand the field and the needs quite well. I strongly believe that scientific illustrations in this field need to be more easily accessible. It is one of my goals to accomplish this.

Feel free to have a look what we are doing here: http://www.somersault1824.com

luk

Try this one.

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Scientific illustration (drawing, painting, sketch, diagram, or picture in a book, magazine article, etc.) scientific visualization (imagine visually), scientific art (human creative skill or its application), scientific 3-d representation (same as fore mentioned descriptions but in three dimensions). Scientific illustration usually requires a large degree of scientific knowledge with respect to taxonomy and visual accuracy eliminating anomalies and atypical characteristics (unless those characters are the target of the illustration). Scientific visualization has a looser interpretation and is used mostly for subjects that are not available for direct comparison (e.g. paleontology, astronomy, atomic interactions, theories, etc.) but have as much accuracy as research allows. Scientific art is just that, art that is inspired by science (e.g. Alex Grey) and is not subject to the same degree of accuracy and is more personal to the artist. I am a scientist, an artist, and a teacher with over 40 years of experience in museums, universities, zoological institutions, and art organizations.

This Ebola Virus 3D model is also very very inspiring....