Blender on the cover of BioEssays

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122684967Once again, a Blender graphic features on the cover of a scientific journal.  (See also our post on Science Magazine)

Hua Wong wrote:

Explanation from the main page : 3D computer graphics of DNA transcription in eukaryotes. Previously determined molecular structures were placed in this scene according to available experimental data and rendered using the Blender software.

For the layman : We gathered models from several sources and imported them all in Blender, resolved an intricate 3D puzzle and made a picture of it.

And the people at BioEssays deemed it worthy of decorating their journal :)

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    • http://www.tonymullen.com/Books.html TonyM

      Cool. It’d be nice to see a bigger image though. I wonder if there’s one around somewhere.

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      I just received a higher-quality image from Hua.

    • Grandmaster B

      Oh, thats what it looks like :D

    • jwrl

      That’s a beautiful piece of art. I’m not surprised they used it as cover art.

    • tidbit

      Very detailed O_o

    • http://www.theprocessdiary.blogspot.com flawedprefect

      Combining two of my favourite subjects: Science, and Blender. It’s great to see there is a community of dedicated artists with a passion for supplying their talents to education and science.

    • http://digitaldraw.wordpress.com/ aws357

      @flawedprefect :

      It is more a case of Blender lending its 3D muscles to help researchers visualize a concept.

      It would have been more difficult to do that with existing molecular vizualisation tools.

      :)