The official website of the National Science Foundation (NSF) reported on the 28th that the results of the 2007 Best Picture Selection of Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge were released, which was the fifth time since the award was established in 2003. On September 28th, Science magazine announced the selection results.

In this year's award results, illustrations are vacant. Here are the winning pictures:

First place in the picture category (tied): What does the back of our nose look like?

This computer-generated CT photo was provided by pamela youde nethersole eastern hospital radiologist Feng Qixiong. It scanned a 33-year-old China woman with thyroid disease. The author superimposed 65,438+082 thin CT films to make a 3D picture, which formed a magical effect of looking up at the sinuses from the back of the head. CT perspective is usually used to overlay smooth planes, but Feng Qixiong created a topographic map of nasal cavity by using a technique called "rainbow technique".

First place in the picture category (tied): Irish seaweed (carrageenan)

At first glance, this image is a piece of seaweed washed up on the beach from a distance. This is a picture of Irish seaweed (carrageenan) taken by Andrei Ortizon. Ortizon is a botanist and molecular biologist at the University of Maryland. The beauty of this photo is that once the algae are fished out of the water, they will automatically curl.

Picture category honor award: miniature metal circuit

Usually, it is not very common to see a metal wire tied into a knot by itself, and it is definitely more difficult to see a metal wire with a diameter of only 200 microns tied into such a knot. Adam Serghir of Harvard University and his colleagues used their inventions to prove that the flexibility of metal wires is very important in integrating microcircuits into circuit networks.

First place in information drawing category: simulating bat flight

Most fruit bats in the jungles of Southeast Asia spend the night in flight, however, these small animals weighing less than 50 grams in adulthood fly in wind tunnels. Kenneth brower, an engineer at Brown University, used laser and advanced multi-lens dynamic tracking system to record the changes of air around the wings of fruit bats during flight.

First place in information graphics: How do muscles work?

How is life connected? This exhibition named "Characteristics of Life" has been very popular since it was launched in 2003. It introduces many scientific knowledge related to life, such as "How muscles work".